Speaker 1: Had any weird dreams lately, Danielle.
Speaker 2: On our way to lunch yesterday, I told Will Will
Speaker 2: ask me. You know, I've started my medication, my anti
Speaker 2: estrogen medication, and it's called demoxifen. There's all kinds of
Speaker 2: potentially awful side effects like joint and muscle weakness and aches,
Speaker 2: and you know, all the menopause symptoms, so like hot flashes,
Speaker 2: night sweats, mood swings, irritability, just weight gain, like you
Speaker 2: name it. There's a laundry list of things. And if
Speaker 2: you research it online, you will inevitably find that people
Speaker 2: seem to react horribly to it and nobody likes it,
Speaker 2: and it's awful. It's horrible. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: so I'm my doctor gave me a little bit of
Speaker 2: like a positive pep talk about it before I started.
Speaker 2: He said, how well, No, what he said was, this
Speaker 2: is my medical oncologist. He said, how did you react
Speaker 2: to pregnancy emotionally? Like what were your side effects of pregnancy?
Speaker 2: And he said were you? And he said, because I
Speaker 2: from and I don't know. Then when I told my practitioner,
Speaker 2: my general practitioner, he said this, She's like, I've never
Speaker 2: heard that. I don't know where he came up with that,
Speaker 2: but whatever, she's like, hopefully it'll be true for you.
Speaker 2: So he just said, like, especially emotionally mood swing wise,
Speaker 2: if pregnancy really affected you, this might do the same
Speaker 2: thing to you. And I said, good news was I didn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't strongly affected during pregnancy. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: go into this with all the optimism in the world
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to have any of these major
Speaker 2: side effects, and in conjunction with that, to avoid any
Speaker 2: of the joint pain and muscle weakness stuff, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: start working out every single day, like at least five
Speaker 2: days a week. I'm going to do something physical. Where
Speaker 2: I had pretty much lived a very sedentary lifestyle for
Speaker 2: the years before this, I'm going to just start being
Speaker 2: really physical. And so I started working out regularly. I
Speaker 2: have now been on it for almost thirty days and
Speaker 2: I have truly no awful side effects thus far. Doesn't
Speaker 2: mean some can start, but I so far am feeling
Speaker 2: really great. I am having the occasional night sweats, but
Speaker 2: all right, I can live with that. I haven't noticed
Speaker 2: that I've had any incredible mood swings. If anything, dare
Speaker 2: I say, I think it made me nicer. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I actually think I feel better. Jensen just wrote
Speaker 2: the chap seconded, I think I'm happier since I've started
Speaker 2: taking demoxifen. I don't know why, but I feel actually better.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm on an antidepressant, even though I've
Speaker 2: never been on one. But the one pretty awful side
Speaker 2: effect for me is that I am having very vivid,
Speaker 2: weird dreams.
Speaker 1: That's fun the ship.
Speaker 2: Their anxiety inducing, and I was telling Will one yesterday
Speaker 2: when we drove to lunch because it's just so weird.
Speaker 2: I had a dream that I kept going back into.
Speaker 2: So I'll wake up from a dream because I'm all
Speaker 2: anxious in the dream. I'll wake up from it and go, Danielle,
Speaker 2: it's just a dream. You're not really in the situation.
Speaker 2: You can just go go back to sleep and just
Speaker 2: like think about something else. And then I went back
Speaker 2: into it over and over again. And you want to
Speaker 2: know what it was? You want to know what my
Speaker 2: dream was? Uh, Grover the Muppet. Grover the Muppet had
Speaker 2: a not in his for that I needed to get out,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I
Speaker 2: was so close my hands in there.
Speaker 3: You couldn't have picked a better like acid trip dream
Speaker 3: to have a Muppet.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like.
Speaker 2: He was like, like, I couldn't like retangler. I was
Speaker 2: using my bee free dtangler and I'm like spraying it
Speaker 2: in his hair and I'm like, oh gosh, it's so close.
Speaker 2: It's so close. And then he's talking to you and
Speaker 2: you have to get this out, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm trying. I really, I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna and then I would like wake up and
Speaker 2: I'd be sweating to death. I was like, oh God,
Speaker 2: poor Grover. And then I'd be like, dang, yelle, Grover
Speaker 2: is Grover's fine, Fine, it's okay, just go back to sleep.
Speaker 2: And then I'd fall back asleep and I'd be Grovers
Speaker 2: for just trying to work on the NOTT. And literally
Speaker 2: it was all night. I woke up out.
Speaker 4: Sorry, but it's such for the side effects you could
Speaker 4: have had, you having anxiety inducing Grover Muppet dreams is
Speaker 4: my favorite.
Speaker 1: I love it so much.
Speaker 3: I mean, when we're having you know, when we're having
Speaker 3: a creative challenge, we're all working on stuff. We can
Speaker 3: call it a Grover's not we got to figure out
Speaker 3: episode of Pod Meets World. It's you know, we're really
Speaker 3: in a Grover's.
Speaker 1: We have to make this quick and it's stressful and weird.
Speaker 4: If cameo, if Grover is on Cameo, I'm getting you.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks forgetting the Grover voice. I'm trying to Groover
Speaker 2: sound like he sounds a little like Cookie Monster, but
Speaker 2: not as deep. A little a little, a little like that,
Speaker 2: but not quite as deep. So I will say that
Speaker 2: that one of the reasons I dreamt about Grover is
Speaker 2: that Jensen has a book from his childhood called Grover
Speaker 2: Goes to School and my children I've been reading it
Speaker 2: to my children for the last couple of nights. Keaton
Speaker 2: loves it, and it's about Grover's anxiety. He goes to
Speaker 2: school and he wants everyone to like him, and so
Speaker 2: to get everyone to like him, he does all these
Speaker 2: things that he doesn't want to do and then ends
Speaker 2: up having a his sterical, hysterical breakdown in school.
Speaker 1: Twists and choke. Somebody like you to get it on tang.
Speaker 2: So anyway, there's my tomoxafine update.
Speaker 1: Here's Grover, guys, Here's this is your old.
Speaker 5: That's right right, there's a little Kermany too, Yeah, mixed
Speaker 5: with cookie Monster.
Speaker 1: This is your old pal Grover.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I thought you played it again. I thought
Speaker 2: played again.
Speaker 1: Will you should maybe working voice was incredible?
Speaker 2: Gosh, well I think I think you've got something there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, that's essentially you just saw a voiceover audition.
Speaker 4: If you have to match somebody, you just keep listening
Speaker 4: to it and then you just try to keep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mimic.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishall, I'm rather strong,
Speaker 2: and I'm Wilfredell. So today we are recapping.
Speaker 1: Got a little grovery. I'm gonna say it was like
Speaker 1: it was like you still you can.
Speaker 3: Get out of it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'll do my own voice. It's wilfred El Kurry.
Speaker 1: Really I want to hear it back, and I swear
Speaker 1: you kind of went like.
Speaker 6: I get a little crack method voiceover app.
Speaker 1: My gosh.
Speaker 2: Today we are recapping season six, episode five, Better than
Speaker 2: Your Average Corey, which originally aired October twenty third, nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety eight. The synopsis. After Corey is introduced to an
Speaker 2: art prodigy, he develops an inferiority complex and blames his
Speaker 2: lack of skills on his average upbringing. Meanwhile, when Rachel
Speaker 2: almost chokes, she says she owes Jack anything he wants
Speaker 2: for saving her life. It was directed by David Kendall
Speaker 2: and it was written by Laura Runnels and Patty Carr. Yes,
Speaker 2: So before I jump into guest stars, what were your
Speaker 2: overall thought of the episode?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Will I want to hear you?
Speaker 4: You go?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what ayahuasca does, but I imagine
Speaker 4: it would make me feel like watching this episode, Wow,
Speaker 4: this was an acid trip of weirdness.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I it was that you know
Speaker 1: what it was? Is this? This episode?
Speaker 4: To me? Had it has produced so many different memes
Speaker 4: that have become famous that it seemed more like meme
Speaker 4: beats than it did like an.
Speaker 2: Entire Episodeery salary for sure.
Speaker 4: Me me lying down looking like I'd been electrocuted a one.
Speaker 4: Matt Matt trying to heimlich Maitland is another one. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's like four or five moments in this that were
Speaker 4: just the moment has become something I'm I'm over already,
Speaker 4: the love triangle of.
Speaker 2: Just running down the episode five over it.
Speaker 4: I'm over every time he touches her, just running down
Speaker 4: the stairs screaming.
Speaker 1: Like, what do you do?
Speaker 6: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: There's nothing any of something?
Speaker 1: What thing? I don't understand it. I thought the a story.
Speaker 1: I got what they were going for.
Speaker 4: I also got why we wanted Alexander Nikita to come on.
Speaker 4: I thought she and Lindsay together look like they were
Speaker 4: not even the same species. Like she she does. Lindsay
Speaker 4: looks like she's, you know, eleven.
Speaker 2: Footy pajamas and then.
Speaker 4: Footy pajama still, and now she's got her friend. She
Speaker 4: drives on in a motorcycle. It was like it just
Speaker 4: it didn't Visually it looked very strange to me. It
Speaker 4: was just a weird episode all the way around. I
Speaker 4: don't even know if I liked it.
Speaker 1: I really don't.
Speaker 4: It's like when you finish an acid trip, you're not like,
Speaker 4: was that fun?
Speaker 1: I don't know, You're just like, thank god it's over
Speaker 1: at this point, Yeah, that's funny. I did not think
Speaker 1: this was that weird. Oh I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: thought it was weird.
Speaker 4: Just all of a sudden, the famous artist just comes
Speaker 4: dowme and is now just living with them.
Speaker 2: I why is she just a member of their family.
Speaker 1: So weird.
Speaker 6: It was just weird. This entire episode I thought was weird.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I completely agree with Will about how random
Speaker 7: and off putting it was that the entire first multiple
Speaker 7: scenes are all centering around this young girl.
Speaker 2: She's thirteen at the time. Is she really she looks
Speaker 2: like a contemporary Lindy.
Speaker 1: Was Ben eleven? No, I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: by this point she was probably twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 2: That's probably word what year Lindsay Ridgeway was born. We'll
Speaker 2: get to that when the king path. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 2: let's look at why you're Lindsay Ridgey was born. Will
Speaker 2: figure it out. But Alexander Nikita is thirteen. I googled
Speaker 2: that last night because in the scene with Ben, I
Speaker 2: could not believe that they made so many little girl
Speaker 2: jokes and references. And by the way, he is being
Speaker 2: so rude.
Speaker 1: It's it's weird.
Speaker 2: Okay. So Lindsay was born in nineteen eighty five, so
Speaker 2: she also was thirteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 2: They're just a very different basically very different. But despite
Speaker 2: their best efforts of pigtail braids and overalls, she looked
Speaker 2: like a contemporary of Ben's, Like she looked like like
Speaker 2: she could be another person in just a normal conversation
Speaker 2: with Ben. But they had to make a big deal
Speaker 2: about the fact that she was a little girl. But
Speaker 2: she doesn't look like a little girl. She doesn't carry
Speaker 2: herself even like a little girl. All of that if
Speaker 2: I get past all of that, because all of that
Speaker 2: was and I joked, when did she just become a
Speaker 2: part of the family. I actually loved the a storyline.
Speaker 2: I loved it really really didn't even know where really
Speaker 2: it was going, just exactly because it was weird, but
Speaker 2: loved where it ended. Just loved day.
Speaker 4: I could watch Rusty act all day long. And that's
Speaker 4: I'm fine with it. I love all that I love it.
Speaker 1: Just it seemed to it seemed to kind of come
Speaker 1: out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: It was another one of those episodes of like, this
Speaker 4: is just the Corey we need right now, and so
Speaker 4: this is the Corey we're going to give you, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like this gets back to essential Cory in the
Speaker 1: best way. This is raging Corey. It's a sister episode
Speaker 1: of Raging Cory.
Speaker 3: To me, I yeah, no, I yeah, I mean obviously
Speaker 3: the b story was snubbed at the Emmys.
Speaker 4: That you're.
Speaker 3: Just can't believe it truly groundbreaking, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: it's awful, it's embarrassing. I'm like embarrassed me too for
Speaker 3: our show.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this?
Speaker 3: And but then I was having this weird thought of like, actually, actually,
Speaker 3: like there's probably people out there who really did enjoy this,
Speaker 3: They're just not Boy Meets World fans.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Like there are people who were like tuning in on
Speaker 3: a Friday night who probably really thought that the The
Speaker 3: Love Triangle was like funny and like this sort of
Speaker 3: like it's not fun effortless romp, but but it's not
Speaker 3: funny because we're looking at it thirty years later, wanting
Speaker 3: it to be part of an important show that has
Speaker 3: these really well developed characters. And actually most people want
Speaker 3: from their Friday night sitcoms, like people that are good looking,
Speaker 3: making jokes and like doing stuff like you know, I
Speaker 3: think the same jokes for now five episodes.
Speaker 2: But it's a riff.
Speaker 1: It's like if you if you are stuck watching your
Speaker 1: kids show, like if you have a teenager and or
Speaker 1: an eleven year old and they want to watch their
Speaker 1: kids show and.
Speaker 2: You're yeah, media coming to the planet every single episode.
Speaker 2: Every episode, I'm like another meteor.
Speaker 4: Writers is literally defending the fact that it's a romp.
Speaker 3: Well here's what I started thinking, Well, it's not even
Speaker 3: that it's a romp, it's that it's a riff exactly.
Speaker 1: It's a sketch.
Speaker 2: It's like a it's like.
Speaker 3: A and And actually there's probably a contingent of people
Speaker 3: for whom the Jack Eric Rachel's storyline was a relief
Speaker 3: from what otherwise was a kind of oppressive, self serious show.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you, those people just don't remember
Speaker 3: it because why.
Speaker 2: Can't Why couldn't they use Jack Eric and Rachel and
Speaker 2: still have this thread of like there being a little
Speaker 2: bit of jealousy and we're interested in her, but give
Speaker 2: them another storyline. The entire all of their b storylines
Speaker 2: for five episodes straight have been the same thing.
Speaker 4: Eric Watson, they're about to touch, he screams, wait.
Speaker 2: But don't do this. I'm going to get her alone.
Speaker 2: It's literally scene seventeen.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, but I feel like I put
Speaker 3: too much pressure on my shows. And I was just
Speaker 3: saying that, like, there's probably a lot of people like
Speaker 3: I don't know, because I didn't watch sitcoms, especially not
Speaker 3: at this time. Like, I don't know what was Full
Speaker 3: House much better? Was was your average say by the
Speaker 3: Bell storyline?
Speaker 1: Much more?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think they were just kind
Speaker 1: of a difficult thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, but you know what I'm saying, Like the idea
Speaker 3: of like having characters stuck in their ways doing the
Speaker 3: same jokey thing was like a reason that a lot
Speaker 3: of people.
Speaker 1: Watch television and watched sitcoms in particular.
Speaker 3: We just are used to we're putting this pressure of
Speaker 3: like and Boy Meets World put it's a pressure on
Speaker 3: you know, we have a child prodigy and a discussion
Speaker 3: about what this means to be average.
Speaker 1: Like we're a very intense show. So I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: did you like the b storyline?
Speaker 3: No, it's of course, but that's not what I you know,
Speaker 3: I also think that uh A Three's Company is like
Speaker 3: just the worst thing that was ever produced.
Speaker 1: Like, and there are people that love threes Company, but
Speaker 1: I love the company is great. Yeah yeah, Like that
Speaker 1: has no interest to me.
Speaker 3: And so if like that's what they're riffing on, I
Speaker 3: don't know, Like I don't know I mean, I know
Speaker 3: that the actors on Three's Company were good and comedic,
Speaker 3: but like, were those storylines memorable?
Speaker 1: Do we care about the consistency of characters from episode No?
Speaker 4: I would say, it's you got when you are now
Speaker 4: in episode five and it is literally the same scene
Speaker 4: in the same set of exactly the same thing happening.
Speaker 4: Whether it's a it's fun, whether it's easy, whatever it is,
Speaker 4: at some point you got to go.
Speaker 6: Dude, give us something else. At least put us in
Speaker 6: another place, right, all right?
Speaker 4: This happens at a gas station or so, It's like,
Speaker 4: how many times can I now run in and scream
Speaker 4: because they're touchingout?
Speaker 2: Can do none of you work? Do none of you
Speaker 2: go to school? Do none of Like?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Why are you just always home?
Speaker 1: Eat hot dogs?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh okay?
Speaker 3: But the story, besides the first scene, which I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is what are we doing? As soon as mister
Speaker 3: Feenie was like.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about classical ouch and renaissance, like what stop?
Speaker 3: Like I'm gonna like I'm throwing up in my mouth
Speaker 3: of how cheesy and bad and poorly written and everything
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 1: Then the kidnapped the Matthews fans well, but.
Speaker 3: Once, once you just accept that ridiculousness, right, Yes, I
Speaker 3: freaking I think Ben Savage's best performance of boy MutS World.
Speaker 3: Maybe I think this might be my favorite. He was
Speaker 3: having so much fun. He is hysterical.
Speaker 1: Ben is very funny.
Speaker 3: Jokes on top of jokes, so they're writing this anxious,
Speaker 3: stretched out Corey, which is still my favorite Corey. I
Speaker 3: love that they like wheel spinning. He's making it everybody's problem.
Speaker 3: I love that Corey. And then Ben was adding so
Speaker 3: many like he was like some curveballs on every joke
Speaker 3: and like like there was one moment where he has
Speaker 3: a line to me and.
Speaker 1: He raised his eyebrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was like crying, oh yeah, when I
Speaker 3: was sitting there going he did that for me, you know,
Speaker 3: and I just it was that classic, like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: Ben is so funny and there I think they wrote
Speaker 3: to Corey well in this episode, and then I think
Speaker 3: Ben delivered one of the best performances.
Speaker 4: Of Maybe that's my problem with the episode. Then maybe
Speaker 4: the Bet story so tainted. It's like somebody delivered this
Speaker 4: beautiful soiux flet and took it on top of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, right exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean when he gets up to sing at the end,
Speaker 3: and Rusty's amazing, Yeah, absolutely, oh yeah, and then they're scene.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like, oh this is this is
Speaker 1: all class. And then the salary beat.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of that it was like some of
Speaker 3: the most memorable, most very meme.
Speaker 4: So this episode is very meme. And again I didn't
Speaker 4: the a storyline was good. Again, I can watch Rusty
Speaker 4: act all the time. So I said, I didn't hate
Speaker 4: this episode.
Speaker 1: It was just weird.
Speaker 4: And maybe it's weird because of the little you know,
Speaker 4: Lindsay looked so strange next to Alexander. She did she
Speaker 4: really looked like she was Ben's age, even though she wasn't.
Speaker 1: And then it just the.
Speaker 4: Whole Bet storyline. It's like I couldn't I couldn't get
Speaker 4: over it. It was just we got to do something else
Speaker 4: with these characters.
Speaker 2: I know, if this continues to be the storyline, I
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: I don't really know. It's bad. It's bad. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Ben is hysterical and I.
Speaker 2: Love this whole Hat storyline. I really, once you get
Speaker 2: past the awkward first scene and all the set up
Speaker 2: reply that.
Speaker 1: I can agree with that and Ben's doing like he's
Speaker 1: and all this stuff he's doing with I was like,
Speaker 1: tell me what girl, it's it's and that's just I
Speaker 1: just love getting away from the cord to pengast. It's great.
Speaker 4: So you know what it is, it's it's I might
Speaker 4: have done it first, but now all of us seemed
Speaker 4: to be acting the way we were acting with each
Speaker 4: other behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Now on camera, and I think that's what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's Ben.
Speaker 4: I was watching Ben last night like those were conversations
Speaker 4: with Ben, so there was That's what I think a
Speaker 4: lot of it is is us trying to make each
Speaker 4: other laugh the way we would when we're around craft service.
Speaker 1: And all that other kind of stuff. That's what it was.
Speaker 1: So yeah, No, Ben was great, You're right. Sorry, amazing.
Speaker 2: Alexandra Nikita, who is playing herself, dubbed the Petite Picasso
Speaker 2: at just twelve years old. Alexander was born in Vassluis, Romania,
Speaker 2: and her father escaped Communist rule when she was just
Speaker 2: three months old. Her and her mother had to wait
Speaker 2: two years to join him in California, where she quickly
Speaker 2: learned pen and ink, then was working with watercolors by five.
Speaker 2: By her seventh birthday, she had mastered oil and acrylics,
Speaker 2: and her first solo show was at the Whittier Public Library.
Speaker 2: At just eight years old, she traveled around the world
Speaker 2: displaying her pieces and became the youngest artist ever to
Speaker 2: sign with international art publishers, and by the time she
Speaker 2: was on Boy Meets World at thirteen, she had delivered
Speaker 2: sixteen solo shows and at least one point five million
Speaker 2: in sales, and in two thousand and one, a school
Speaker 2: in her hometown of Veslui, Romania, was named in her honor.
Speaker 2: Collectors include Oprah Winfrey, whose show she appeared on, Calvin Klein,
Speaker 2: Little Richard, Alec Baldwin, and Whoopee Goldberg.
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs, Oh, of course, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went to his house in Aspen, and I
Speaker 3: remember she had her paint one of her paintings on
Speaker 3: the wall. So I'm sure that's where this came about,
Speaker 3: because we're so into our art and collection collecting art
Speaker 3: that yeah. And I think it's funny because he probably
Speaker 3: wanted to do this episode based on, you know, the
Speaker 3: idea that this kid was a kid, but then by
Speaker 3: the time we actually got her.
Speaker 1: For the episode, she just was older.
Speaker 3: You know, she just older, even she's so self possessed
Speaker 3: and like yes, as like a very mature presence that Yeah.
Speaker 1: You guys still have your scripts. Yeah, it's the only
Speaker 1: script I guess I kept from. I think I still
Speaker 1: have money. She signed a script, and she drew on.
Speaker 4: She drew on all our She each gave us each
Speaker 4: a script that she signed, and she drew like a
Speaker 4: little like a painting.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have one of them. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: just for writer, but you know, he might have a
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor Thomas signed script.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but maybe I don't know. I have
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor Thomas taboo.
Speaker 1: Me too.
Speaker 2: The good news is she will be appearing on our
Speaker 2: podcast this season, so up upcoming podcast guests.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: So she would eventually graduate from UCLA and she is
Speaker 2: still painting today at thirty nine. She has two children
Speaker 2: of her own and exhibits her work regularly. So I
Speaker 2: do you guys have any memory of her being on
Speaker 2: set this week? Do you remember this episode?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I absolutely just remember liking her a lot, like she
Speaker 3: was really cook and cool and also looking back and
Speaker 3: like this is they gave her a lot and she's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I obviously not an actor, and so to
Speaker 3: have to not be an actor and this much is
Speaker 3: so hard. She was wonderful and I was like now
Speaker 3: and I remember thinking at the time, Yeah, she was
Speaker 3: very cool and nice.
Speaker 2: Imagine how bad it could have been if she wasn't capable, Like,
Speaker 2: if she wasn't a decent actor, this would have this is.
Speaker 1: A drive by. This is You've got three lines in
Speaker 1: what I've seen.
Speaker 4: And hey, we brought the famous person on to say
Speaker 4: to you know, we loved him and he was great
Speaker 4: and but it wasn't like Jim Abbott.
Speaker 1: She was acting or something like that. You know, she
Speaker 1: carried this thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, well. Then we also have Jesse d. Goins
Speaker 2: as mister Cupp. You may know him from movies like
Speaker 2: RoboCop and Patriot Games, but has appeared in almost every
Speaker 2: TV show of the eighties, including Different Strokes, Hill Street Blues,
Speaker 2: alf and Seinfeld. But he's best known as Kyler Johnson
Speaker 2: on the cult TV show The Greatest American Hero.
Speaker 1: Okay, I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna say anything, but
Speaker 1: since you just mentioned alf, I will I had one
Speaker 1: of the most intense nightmares.
Speaker 3: Of my childhood was Alf so second Clover. Yeah, alf
Speaker 3: was eating people and I still have memories of it,
Speaker 3: like I was terrified. So wow, I've only seen Alf
Speaker 3: like once or twice in my life.
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to ask, where did it
Speaker 2: come from? Like Grover's in the books I've been reading?
Speaker 2: Will do you have any dreams about muppets?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: But they dream about me?
Speaker 2: Got it? That's that's okay in your dream exactly?
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Jumping into our recap, we start in the Philadelphia Museum
Speaker 2: of Art. Feoene is leading a class of college students
Speaker 2: through his favorite room of the museum. The abstract pieces
Speaker 2: lining the walls are open to interpretation, so he asks
Speaker 2: that each student pick out a piece of artwork that
Speaker 2: speaks to them and then speak to us about how
Speaker 2: it speaks to you.
Speaker 6: Is now an art teacher?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 3: College?
Speaker 1: Of course? College occur to me. I was like, right,
Speaker 1: we're just.
Speaker 4: Make it right, that's right, And why we're all together there? Well,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know the thing that colleges do all
Speaker 4: the time is field trips.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. They those are big.
Speaker 6: The college field trips are really well, really well known.
Speaker 1: It's like, what okay?
Speaker 2: So, then Sean and Angela excitedly walk up to Cory
Speaker 2: and t Banka. Angela reveals they have great news. Corey
Speaker 2: chimes in, hey me too. Angela starts Sean just got
Speaker 2: into the photography program, and Sean adds back to photography.
Speaker 1: Is now a thing. We didn't remember this and this
Speaker 1: is now. It was on Girl Meets World. I was
Speaker 1: like a photographer and I traveling.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is the thing, okay, but
Speaker 3: now looking I thought, like, Sean becomes a poet not
Speaker 3: too far from now, what has.
Speaker 1: Happened with a poet photographer? You know, just like you
Speaker 1: did whatever art? We need exactly what stop?
Speaker 2: So and Angela got an a on her essay maintaining
Speaker 2: black identity when you have three very white friends.
Speaker 1: One of the few jokes.
Speaker 2: Is it the first time we directly mentioned race, Probably because.
Speaker 3: I feel there's one joke where she says, I got
Speaker 3: to get more black friends than doing the soap opera game.
Speaker 3: We have to have your middle name whatever in the future, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And that has happened, but that's the only one I remember.
Speaker 4: Well, she said to Ben last episode, you are so
Speaker 4: down my brother, Yeah, said Stella got her groove grapping
Speaker 4: you are so down.
Speaker 1: My brother.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but I think this is the first the edges. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there is the first, very direct one though. To Panga
Speaker 2: congratulates them both and then asks Corey what his news was.
Speaker 2: Corey shyly reveals I found a penny. Phoene asks for
Speaker 2: a volunteer to offer their interpretation of one of the
Speaker 2: bigger pieces in the exhibit, and Corey's hand shoots up.
Speaker 2: Pick me, mister foennye please please. Phoene asks how can
Speaker 2: I turn down that kind of enthusiasm, and he lets
Speaker 2: Corey take the floor.
Speaker 1: Cory want to.
Speaker 3: Be in noasly just implied that, like Corey's been too quiet,
Speaker 3: and to Panga says to him, like, why are you
Speaker 3: ever volunteering for you know, I don't set it up
Speaker 3: in some way.
Speaker 2: To Panga made a big deal about Corey needing to
Speaker 2: be able to interpret art in order for her to
Speaker 2: love him because of the other guy. So I kind
Speaker 2: of like the idea that Cory's like.
Speaker 1: He's studied it, because yeah, he pays attention.
Speaker 2: He yes, he's he's like, listen, my lady's into this.
Speaker 2: She's made it clear.
Speaker 1: Then save that he could have been easily just had
Speaker 1: they weren't even thinking that. They weren't thinking that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, No, I want to know where Ricky Ferris
Speaker 4: was this entire time saving puppies. I came back from
Speaker 4: Alexander nikitats.
Speaker 1: Questle.
Speaker 2: Cory stands in front of the art and he takes
Speaker 2: a deep breath. Meanwhile, a girl with pigtail braids, overalls
Speaker 2: and braces is unexplainably following him very closely. Cory declares
Speaker 2: to the class, I see hands staring at the fabric
Speaker 2: of America. You can almost see the old and bitter
Speaker 2: artist as he predicts total anarchy and higher taxes in
Speaker 2: the death of the American way. The pigtail girl interrupts him,
Speaker 2: Your total wrong. Corey chuckles at her. Are you lost,
Speaker 2: little girl? And this is where I was like. She
Speaker 2: looks exactly the same age as Cory I were, I mean,
Speaker 2: and they're trying so hard were the footy pajamas in
Speaker 2: the laundry that she's not.
Speaker 1: Kids on the tracle.
Speaker 6: Just happened to be wrong, licking an ice cream cone.
Speaker 4: You're wrong, mister, Okay, but they're both thirteen when you
Speaker 4: see them standing next to Lindsey. They're all thirteen, which
Speaker 4: how different people can be, especially at that age. I mean, man,
Speaker 4: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, how old is Morgan supposed to be? Eleven?
Speaker 2: Eleven? I would assume, Yeah, she looks like she's eleven.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. I thought I was like, oh, she's an
Speaker 1: eleven year old mom.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: She suggests that the painting is about hope for the
Speaker 2: future and the joy of life, and the artist is
Speaker 2: not bitter. Corey is still angry for no reason at all. Look,
Speaker 2: little girl, you're a little girl. I'm eighteen years old,
Speaker 2: and you're going to try and tell me something. Phoenie
Speaker 2: is now tapping on Corey's shoulder, trying to get his
Speaker 2: attention to where I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, the writing is like driving me crazy, but then
Speaker 3: is making making it. He's like, this is like where
Speaker 3: the writing is so heavy handed and on the nose
Speaker 3: and make you know, set up, set up, set up.
Speaker 2: But I don't care, because if you listen, I care
Speaker 2: a little job.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Ben's having fun, Like this is funny to
Speaker 3: me that he's like a little girl and like doing
Speaker 3: all his little stuff.
Speaker 2: Is just imagine him doing it any other way. Though,
Speaker 2: When the lines are Look, little girl, you're a little girl.
Speaker 2: I'm eighteen years old, and you're going to try and
Speaker 2: tell me something. You just take your little joy for
Speaker 2: life and pipe it sister. Like imagine him saying that,
Speaker 2: not like yeah.
Speaker 3: No, well that's when somebody like me, like as an
Speaker 3: actor back then, I wouldn't have thought to do that,
Speaker 3: Like I would have played it straight.
Speaker 1: I would have been like, well, he was like, why
Speaker 1: am I so angry? Why am I so angry? And
Speaker 1: then yeah, and it would s and would not be
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, how else did you play it exactly?
Speaker 1: I'm like, you want me to say that?
Speaker 3: And you know, of course Ben just had the wherewithal
Speaker 3: as an actor to be like, we have to put
Speaker 3: a lilt to it, like to make it a joke,
Speaker 3: turn into a clown a little bit, which is the only.
Speaker 1: Way to do this kind of thing, and like I
Speaker 1: was not capable of that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I appreciate it so much. In best so it's
Speaker 1: really weirdly written.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. If he had done it in any
Speaker 2: other way. He found, in my opinion, the only way
Speaker 2: to make its funny, the only con Corey finally asks
Speaker 2: Feoenie what his problem is, and Phoene just shakes his head,
Speaker 2: no problem, keep talking now, I'm going to enjoy this.
Speaker 2: The girl butts in again, excuse me, mister mean man,
Speaker 2: but I know exactly what's in the painting. Corey mocks her.
Speaker 2: Oh was I mister mean man? Was I too mean
Speaker 2: to the little dude? Go ahead tell me you you
Speaker 2: tell me how you know what's in the painting. The
Speaker 2: girl simply states I painted it. The crowd and Corey
Speaker 2: faces well, okay.
Speaker 1: We'll shirt water. We're friends. We're friends, remember friends.
Speaker 2: We come back from commercials. Still at the Museum of Art,
Speaker 2: Corey is still not convinced about this little girl. You
Speaker 2: painted it, and I got your nose. He grabs at
Speaker 2: her face and Peeney cringes. Mister Matthews give her back
Speaker 2: her nose. Corey insists that he's just playing with the kid,
Speaker 2: but Phoene breaks it to him, Corey, I believe the
Speaker 2: kid whose nose you hold is Alexandra Nikita Corey. Corey
Speaker 2: sees that she is listed as the artist and displays
Speaker 2: a picture where she does look younger.
Speaker 4: In the picture looks better than yes, it did, Yet
Speaker 4: it's not better or worse she just looked younger.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, much presence, it's one she just yeah after
Speaker 5: she's also tall. Yeah, let's just you know, she's tall.
Speaker 5: After a couple of double takes, things finally click. He
Speaker 5: nervously laughs Hello. He explains he didn't actually take her nose.
Speaker 5: Then he pretends to give it back to her. Phoene
Speaker 5: steps in and whisks Alexandra away. He's a great admirer
Speaker 5: of hers. I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts
Speaker 5: about classic versus modern technique and.
Speaker 4: Where he hands her back her nose and she puts
Speaker 4: it back on, and she staring at him, like takes
Speaker 4: the beat to put the nose back on, and.
Speaker 2: Uh, and he finishes and the impact of the Renaissance
Speaker 2: on the modern palette. Sean notices his enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Exactly sophisticated things.
Speaker 2: Non classic versus modern technique.
Speaker 1: Stop like go dictionary. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Phoene admits he can't help but get carried away
Speaker 2: when he sees a young person with such extraordinary gifts.
Speaker 2: Then for some reason, Corey pipes up. Are you saying
Speaker 2: we don't have extraordinary gifts? Phoene assures him, of course not,
Speaker 2: you also have extraordinary gifts. Corey isn't satisfied, Like what.
Speaker 2: Phoene responds, you have your health, good for you, for you,
Speaker 2: Then he pulls Alexandra away again step aside for the genius.
Speaker 2: Alexandra explained she's in Philadelphia because there's a showcase of
Speaker 2: her earlier work, and Sean laughs to his friends, Wow,
Speaker 2: she has earlier work. Corey realizes, I'm eighteen and I
Speaker 2: have no work at all. Tapega explains everyone can't be
Speaker 2: a great painter, but Corey is still shocked. She's like
Speaker 2: as old as my sister and she already knows what
Speaker 2: she's good at. I wonder what I'm good at. Alexandra
Speaker 2: has heard his concern and made her way back to
Speaker 2: her harshest critic. She asks, you have a sister. My
Speaker 2: age blocking is so weird and I'm just like, what
Speaker 2: no happening?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Did you see the hand acting that Alexandra and
Speaker 4: and Bill were doing in the background, Like they're both
Speaker 4: just like.
Speaker 1: Point and then my technique brushstroke and.
Speaker 2: Will that's that hand acting is called hackting?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, well makes sense.
Speaker 2: So Corey's eyes widen and then we cut to the
Speaker 2: Matthew's kitchen. Morgan is sitting at the table doing some
Speaker 2: coloring of her own. When Corey and Alexandra walk in,
Speaker 2: Corey takes one look at Morgan's artwork and crumples the paper.
Speaker 2: Don't even bother.
Speaker 4: But it's a great joke. But now is this poor girl?
Speaker 4: Was she at the place by herself? She was at
Speaker 4: the museum by herself, and now if she had a
Speaker 4: family there, They're just like, yeah, go with this stranger totally.
Speaker 2: Oh there's another little girl in that home. You can
Speaker 2: go hang out with her exact I mean, and then
Speaker 2: she's there for the whole week. She changes clothes. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's really straight. I also love the idea that she
Speaker 2: lives at the art museum just walking around her paintings
Speaker 2: looking for people to argue with.
Speaker 1: That's such a good bad.
Speaker 2: That is really weiry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what could they have done?
Speaker 3: Like I'm trying, I'm trying to think, like, could you
Speaker 3: have been on an exchange program? Or like is there
Speaker 3: some rationale that could have made for like Phoene's hosting
Speaker 3: her his house.
Speaker 2: Yes, it as an adult there with her to talk
Speaker 2: to Phoenie and for you know, for her to be
Speaker 2: like you have a friend for her to be like,
Speaker 2: you know, the one thing that is hard about what
Speaker 2: she does is she doesn't have a lot of friends.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have a lot of you know.
Speaker 4: Like or you have her coming, you don't have her
Speaker 4: come in with Corey. Corey comes in and goes, don't
Speaker 4: bother with this. He goes, hey, I met somebody in
Speaker 4: that and her her parents said, you guys are going
Speaker 4: to hang out this week.
Speaker 1: And then she knocks on the door and you open
Speaker 1: the door and she comes in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like her just getting in the car with Corey and
Speaker 1: going home is like really sway or something. It's really weird.
Speaker 2: Morgan recognizes the painter, which also what what. Morgan goes,
Speaker 2: I know who you are. You're that painter girl I
Speaker 2: saw on Rosi O'donald. Isn't rosso O'donnald a daytime show
Speaker 2: during the week. Yes, she's at school, okay anyway, Corey
Speaker 2: introduces her and then tells his sister. For some reason,
Speaker 2: she wants to hang out with you. Alexander admits, when
Speaker 2: I go on all these tours, I don't get a
Speaker 2: lot of time to spend with kids my own age.
Speaker 2: Morgan asks if she's really been painting since she was two,
Speaker 2: and Alexandra nods her head. My parents gave me a
Speaker 2: coloring book and craons when I was two, and I
Speaker 2: guess I just never stopped. Corey gasps. Really when Morgan
Speaker 2: was too, she gained almost full control of her neck.
Speaker 2: We're all real proud of her. Go ahead, Morgan, hold
Speaker 2: up your head.
Speaker 6: This is again where the ayahuasca was kicking in, where
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, what I know? These these first two scenes.
Speaker 3: Are what's funny about this scene. It's weird that it's
Speaker 3: it's funny, like the joke is it? Like what Ben
Speaker 3: is saying, it's funny. But it would be sense that
Speaker 3: Corey would be cynical about how she's so talentless when
Speaker 3: he's already supposed to be spinning it out about his
Speaker 3: own lack.
Speaker 2: Of reading all about him. If he's like two, when
Speaker 2: I was two, I had just gained control.
Speaker 1: Of my neck exactly. Instead, he's like insulting Morgan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, you know what. But for
Speaker 4: this episode, it's funny. Ben's great. This episode feels.
Speaker 6: Like a dream that Danielle would have on her medication.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what this episode feels like to me, it's
Speaker 4: just feels weird. It's just honest, we met Let's bring
Speaker 4: her into the family, like it seems. Phoenie's now leading
Speaker 4: a class school field trip where he is a teacher
Speaker 4: of art. All of a sudden, it just felt like
Speaker 4: a big fever dream to me.
Speaker 1: I know, Well, it's always when. It's always when the episode.
Speaker 3: Is led by ideas first and the story has to
Speaker 3: fit all these different ideas.
Speaker 1: And like it's clear that you know, Michael.
Speaker 3: Jacobs loves art, like, yeah, loves visual art. This is
Speaker 3: one of his passions in life. He actually wrote, uh,
Speaker 3: after Boy Meets World, he wrote a play called Impressionism
Speaker 3: that was on Broadway. Yeah, so if anybody is interested
Speaker 3: in if Boy Meet's World fans who like Michael's writing,
Speaker 3: there's a play called Impressionism.
Speaker 1: I never saw it.
Speaker 3: I read it, but you know, like this is a
Speaker 3: thing for him, and he obviously liked her, and he
Speaker 3: was like, let's get her in here. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: what I imagine added is that you're the poor writing
Speaker 3: staff has to like figure out all these parts while
Speaker 3: Michael's rewriting three episodes behind, you know or whatever. And
Speaker 3: by the time they get to this week, They're like,
Speaker 3: do we really need there? It's like, make it work,
Speaker 3: figure it out, and it's like, yeah, so it's just
Speaker 3: cramming in a lot of ideas.
Speaker 1: Writing story wise, I don't know, but I did like
Speaker 1: where it ends up. I love it, And again Lind.
Speaker 3: The idea of like bringing her singing in which obviously
Speaker 3: as a person could saying as an actor could sing,
Speaker 3: and using that.
Speaker 1: And the talent it kind of worked for me.
Speaker 2: It works.
Speaker 1: It's again, it didn't. I didn't dislike it.
Speaker 2: It's just like Morgan has her own rival in school
Speaker 2: who's better at her than something. She doesn't need Corey
Speaker 2: to be the one putting her down about her, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, by the way, we'll get to that.
Speaker 4: But the girl that's the rival of the school is
Speaker 4: another thirty five year old woman.
Speaker 2: I mean, Also, why why did it? Why did it
Speaker 2: have to be fire batons?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Okay? Also, Alan, I'm just glad double jump Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just glad you thought that's what I mean
Speaker 4: by ayahuasca. It just seemed like it's it's a strange.
Speaker 2: I know, a lot of weird, lot of weird pieces
Speaker 2: of this. Yes, Okay, Morgan tells her new friend, when
Speaker 2: I was one and a half, I learned to ignore him.
Speaker 2: She performs a ninety staple by placing an l near
Speaker 2: her forehead and saying.
Speaker 1: Liz is, there's a few things I hate more than that, Like,
Speaker 1: I hate that more than anything.
Speaker 2: Won't do it?
Speaker 1: Killing John, God, you guys lose it. Whatever.
Speaker 2: She then asks Alexandra she likes video games. Corey scoffs, Yeah,
Speaker 2: she likes video games. Morgan, she's a cultural icon. She's
Speaker 2: got lots of Alexander cuts him off. Banjo Kazooi, Morgan shouts,
Speaker 2: got it, Alexander.
Speaker 3: I had to go back.
Speaker 1: I was like, what did she say? Because it's a
Speaker 1: real game. Banjoke zoo is a real game.
Speaker 4: It's based on Crash Bandicoot, which was a real Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Banjo kazoo sounds like something our writers would make up.
Speaker 4: Totally No, Banjo Kazooi and Jo Kazooi was a video game.
Speaker 4: It is a British platform gaming series where players control
Speaker 4: Banjo the Bear and Kazuoi the Bird as ay thwart
Speaker 4: the scheme of the Witch Room.
Speaker 1: Tild so.
Speaker 2: Totally real, Morgan reveals twice. Then the girls take off
Speaker 2: upstairs to play. Corey sits at the table, shocked. The
Speaker 2: silence is interrupted by Sean and trying to ask what
Speaker 2: he's doing. Corey answers, do you think I'm talented? Sean pauses,
Speaker 2: then let's out a sigh. Oh god, what now?
Speaker 4: Now? Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I love about.
Speaker 3: Like, that's when the story kicks in and we're now
Speaker 3: just gonna have to deal with Corey spinning out.
Speaker 2: I love before we get there. Here's our first scene
Speaker 2: of the b storyline. So before you can enjoy the show,
Speaker 2: we've got to get through this the Heimlich. Yeah, Jack
Speaker 2: and Eric are sitting on the couch when Rachel walks over.
Speaker 2: She's eating a hot dog. She asks, can you I'm
Speaker 2: just so on the nose. It's just, guys, it's so
Speaker 2: on the nose. She asks, can you believe how tough
Speaker 2: Peterson's econ classes? The guys just gawk at her, not
Speaker 2: engaging in any conversation whatsoever. Rachel makes a joke about
Speaker 2: the class and Eric lets out an over the top
Speaker 2: laugh and response. She may her way back to the
Speaker 2: kitchen for condiments, and Eric rocks back and forth in pain.
Speaker 2: Jack tells him to just go pee already. Eric sneers,
Speaker 2: oh you would love that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3: Rachel over here, I thought I'd missed something. I was right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: are we supposed to know that? I was like, wait,
Speaker 3: are what's going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It's a weird beginning. It ends up
Speaker 1: being like I.
Speaker 2: Mean, at least it makes sense that it's like, oh, no,
Speaker 2: for five episodes, I haven't pete because the idea is
Speaker 2: I've never left them alone for any length of time.
Speaker 2: So Rachel overhears them and is confused. Jack explains he's
Speaker 2: afraid to leave us alone for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: Eric is an embarrassed Oh yeah, like you've never ever
Speaker 2: left me alone with her for any minutes. Eric wiggles
Speaker 2: around in discomfort but assures them I'm okay, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Jack decides that they should make a toast to Eric
Speaker 2: being okay. They cheers some cups of water together, and
Speaker 2: then Jack forces the water down Eric's throat with water
Speaker 2: still in his mouth. I love that you can do
Speaker 2: this even with water in your mouth. I love this
Speaker 2: is your chipmunk. This is your very famous chipmunk face.
Speaker 4: So this is this is one of the first characters
Speaker 4: I ever did. Yeah, there was a kid who was
Speaker 4: the loveliest.
Speaker 1: Guy in the world. I won't say his name.
Speaker 4: When I was growing up with him who had very
Speaker 4: big cheeks, and he would always want to skateboard, so
Speaker 4: be escape, hang out.
Speaker 1: Little dude.
Speaker 2: Man, that was going on, and so it was like
Speaker 2: the first of it, the start.
Speaker 1: Of your comedy. He was a freaking bullying he was abby.
Speaker 4: Kid, was the chubby kid. He just had big, big
Speaker 4: cheeks and uh. So that he would always and then
Speaker 4: the sound just became part of the thing. So I
Speaker 4: would we would be in a you know, a sleepover situation,
Speaker 4: and you just hear and and that was the sound
Speaker 4: is the sound.
Speaker 2: Of me filling your cheek. I love that you can
Speaker 2: do it even with water in your mouth and still talk.
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, okay, uh with water still in his mouth.
Speaker 2: He we thought it was cartman. We thought it was
Speaker 2: a little bit of a cartman. He tells Jack, that
Speaker 2: is the meanest thing you've ever done to me. He
Speaker 2: then runs through the stair bans her like that was
Speaker 2: that was that just something you did?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Just that one take.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He dives through the stair banister to make it to
Speaker 2: the bathroom just in time. Rachel laughs and throws her
Speaker 2: arm around Jack. He's so funny, like he has to
Speaker 2: worry about us being alone together, right, Jack grins Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then he casually adds, I want you to marry me.
Speaker 2: Rachel laughs, what so, Jack double's down marry me now?
Speaker 2: Before he comes out of the bathroom, Rachel takes a
Speaker 2: bite of the start.
Speaker 4: I didn't the last episode, they just realize that they're
Speaker 4: going to treat her with respect and no one's going
Speaker 4: to ask her.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's a roommate and that just has She
Speaker 2: just said we are going to be like girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Right, No, that was too No, that was two. That
Speaker 1: was the first episode she said we're going to be
Speaker 1: like girlfriends. But then it last episode was yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't need to try well like Eric has the whole Yeah,
Speaker 1: this room putting in the laundry room and we don't
Speaker 1: need to do that.
Speaker 4: I mean it was it's like we just did this
Speaker 4: where we're going to treat her with respect and oh
Speaker 4: I got to be myself, and then it's just like
Speaker 4: we forgot all about that and we're just doing exactly
Speaker 4: the same thing again.
Speaker 2: Rachel takes a bite of her hot dog. Well, I
Speaker 2: hope you want, because I want six boys and six girl.
Speaker 2: Then she pauses and urgently grabs her throat. Jack doesn't
Speaker 2: notice her panic. I know this is very sudden, but
Speaker 2: I need you to hurry up and answer me. Before
Speaker 2: he comes out of the bathroom. Rachel tries to speak,
Speaker 2: but can't. She points to her throat and Jack grins,
Speaker 2: that's right, cuteye pie, I'm talking to you. She's struggling
Speaker 2: to breathe, so she quickly grabs a piece of paper
Speaker 2: and feverishly writes something down. Jack tries to read it
Speaker 2: out loud. I'm chucking to death. Then it finally registers.
Speaker 1: Oh god.
Speaker 2: He quickly starts the Heimlich maneuver, throwing Rachel back and forth.
Speaker 2: She's screaming with the movements. Then Eric walks out of
Speaker 2: the bathroom, announcing that monsoon season is officially over. Then
Speaker 2: he sees Jack embracing Rachel and shrieks at the top
Speaker 2: of his lungs. He bolts to the couple, and just
Speaker 2: as he arrives, Rachel spits the bit of hot dog
Speaker 2: right in his face. He recoils in disgust and then
Speaker 2: lashes out in anger at Jack. You said you weren't
Speaker 2: gonna do anything and will You're like covered in water too.
Speaker 1: I noticed that too.
Speaker 4: It had to be from when I was chugging, like
Speaker 4: we must when I went back and watched it, you know,
Speaker 4: and I don't know where it came from.
Speaker 2: So like it's almost like when she's spit out the
Speaker 2: hot dog, she had water in her mouth.
Speaker 6: You're covered, it's like covered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just must be a community thing.
Speaker 6: Maybe in one take, I got the water spilled on
Speaker 6: me and then we.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: The second half of this ye okay, Jack argues she
Speaker 2: was chucking to death. Rachel is so thankful you saved
Speaker 2: my life. Eric shoutz, no he didn't. Jack humbly responds,
Speaker 2: forget about it. Okay, you would have done the same
Speaker 2: for me. But Rachel insists if I can do anything
Speaker 2: to repay you, I will because I owe you big time.
Speaker 2: Eric screams, I am ever going to be again.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just not a good scene. It's just
Speaker 1: this is hopefully this isn't the start.
Speaker 2: For you guys, and I just want more for you guys.
Speaker 2: There's so much more. There's so much more, and like
Speaker 2: you said, at least get him out of the apartment.
Speaker 3: Come on, I'm looking forward to the set we've got.
Speaker 3: I see him set We've got like there overdoing the
Speaker 3: swing sets. We also had to bring the boy's bedroom
Speaker 3: back for this week.
Speaker 2: I know, speaking here, we are Corey's new room. This
Speaker 2: is the first time we've seen it the season since
Speaker 2: the boys moved out. It's rather confusing why.
Speaker 1: I figured it out because everything Eric is gone, So
Speaker 1: why are we back in the.
Speaker 3: Room just to have him look at through the But like,
Speaker 3: Corey still has a room at his parents' house even
Speaker 3: though he's living in a dorm.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying wouldn't have been the nursery.
Speaker 1: Doesn't some parents keeping their kids it should.
Speaker 2: Be a nursery. Oh, I know, we know, we've heard
Speaker 2: of that. We've heard of those people. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Also, like, yeah, we could have done this
Speaker 2: in the boy's dorm room. He could have had his
Speaker 2: little trophies in a box in the boys dorm.
Speaker 1: Room and the cellary up there and everything else. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could have done all the same stuff.
Speaker 2: Celearies. So Corey pathetically shows Sean his eighth place trophy
Speaker 2: for enthusiasm from Fat Camp. Sean doesn't get it when
Speaker 2: were you fat? Cory says, well, my parents applied to
Speaker 2: the good camps too late. Man, those guys could eat pie.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, he's hysterical. He destroys the trophy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sean wonders about another trophy. Corey reveals my baseball
Speaker 2: team came in last. Sean can't believe they gave out
Speaker 2: a trophy for that. Corey says they wanted everybody to
Speaker 2: feel a sense of pride and achievement. Sean examines it
Speaker 2: and wonders, where's his head. Corey calmly explains, I smashed
Speaker 2: it off with a hammer.
Speaker 1: Eyebro goes up, suffering.
Speaker 2: Love it. Sean admits, I know I should be trying
Speaker 2: to make you feel better, but what kind of loser
Speaker 2: saves all these things? Corey says, because this is me,
Speaker 2: mister average. My room is a shrine to my mediocre life.
Speaker 2: Sean shakes his head. You don't have a mediocre life.
Speaker 2: Corey stands with his back against the wall, revealing a
Speaker 2: poster of a single bunch of celery. He says, there's
Speaker 2: nothing about me that separates me from anybody else.
Speaker 1: Genius life.
Speaker 3: It's so good to have a visual that you don't
Speaker 3: even have to hit the joke. Yes, it's just a
Speaker 3: visual saying a line, and the way it's framed, it's
Speaker 3: I just don't want to know exactly how this happens.
Speaker 2: It's also a giant it's such a big poster.
Speaker 4: Of Celery and it's perfect a wonderful like you too
Speaker 4: next to But it's absurd, it's oh god, it's great.
Speaker 2: It's so funny, just so funny, and is an absolutely
Speaker 2: iconic boy meets world moment. He complains, nobody ever helped
Speaker 2: me find out what I was talented at. Sean quickly
Speaker 2: reaches for a ukulele, reminding Corey he used to be
Speaker 2: good at it. Corey takes the instrument and begins to strum,
Speaker 2: singing off key, my dog has please. Sean fake's enthusiasm. Wow.
Speaker 2: Corey strums and sing again, my dog has Please. This time,
Speaker 2: Sean exclaims, yes, yes, it's so funny. Then we're back
Speaker 2: in the Matthew's kitchen. Morgan and Alexander are at the
Speaker 2: dinner table playing a game boy while Amy and Allan
Speaker 2: unload grocery bags. Amy tells Morgan this is the moment
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, she's just she just lives here.
Speaker 1: Now, she's just family, okay.
Speaker 2: Amy tells Morgan that they ran into Missus Eichelberger Missus
Speaker 2: Eichelberger at the store, and Alan remembers her daughter's the
Speaker 2: reason you didn't enter the talent show at the youth center,
Speaker 2: isn't she? Morgan shrugs. Elouise Eichelberger wins that talent show
Speaker 2: every year.
Speaker 1: The names, man, I love it. Everybody. Every name is
Speaker 1: like an opportunity to describe character.
Speaker 2: Yep, why should anyone else bother to try? Amy encourages her.
Speaker 2: You were such a good singer, it would be a
Speaker 2: shame for you to not even try. Alan tries to help.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Alexandra would want you to try. Do you
Speaker 2: think she'd stop painting because there are other girl girls
Speaker 2: that could paint better than she could. Alexander tries to agree, Oh, sure,
Speaker 2: there are many girls who can paint better. Then, and
Speaker 2: then she stops herself and turns back to Alan. I'm
Speaker 2: not supposed to lie.
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 2: Alan waves them off, telling them to go play in
Speaker 2: the living room. So funny, great, and she does it.
Speaker 6: So she does it great, she does because she plays
Speaker 6: it earnestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like God played for a joke. It's like
Speaker 1: I really don't know what really, Yeah, well I do.
Speaker 2: But Morgan lingers behind. She asks her mom if she
Speaker 2: has to sing. Amy shakes her head. Nobody's going to
Speaker 2: force you to do anything you don't want to do.
Speaker 2: Alan agrees. If you don't want to sing, you don't
Speaker 2: have to sing. Corey and Sean have walked downstairs and
Speaker 2: caught their heart to heart. Morgan leaves and Corey pipes in,
Speaker 2: that's right. Tell her she doesn't have to continue with
Speaker 2: her ukulele lessons either. He points to Sean, who strums
Speaker 2: a nice little tune on the Ukulelean response. Alan's lost,
Speaker 2: so Corey explains way to groom another eighth place honorable mention,
Speaker 2: nothing special, also ran dad. Alan size, Okay, what now?
Speaker 2: Corey rattles on what now? I could have been one
Speaker 2: of the greatest ukulele players in the world. Sean chimes in,
Speaker 2: are you getting that this isn't about the ukulele? Amy nods.
Speaker 1: This scene is great.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 4: I love this scene because this really surprised me, Like
Speaker 4: I thought they were going to take it pure comedy,
Speaker 4: the whole way of just I have nothing I can't
Speaker 4: believe you did this to me, and then he's going
Speaker 4: to spiral out in the dorm room, and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden it got real and it was like,
Speaker 4: oh oh, I mean every time everybody blow to Alan
Speaker 4: was just like ugh, yeah, I wasn't expecting this this again,
Speaker 4: fever dream. It just came on out of nowhere and
Speaker 4: just kept changing direction and it was strange, but good.
Speaker 2: Corey tells his parents that he could have been great
Speaker 2: at something, but they stopped him. Alan says they didn't
Speaker 2: stop stop him, he just lost interest. So Corey asks,
Speaker 2: how come you didn't give me a paint set?
Speaker 1: What I was? To whom? Hookem?
Speaker 2: Does he say it?
Speaker 4: No, I do.
Speaker 1: When I heard you say how come it? I wanted
Speaker 1: them to Jackson hole, I'm ukulely boy.
Speaker 2: Amy reminds him, you were more excited about your toilet training.
Speaker 2: Corey big boy, Now you would say, Sean, let's out
Speaker 2: a big laugh. Oh Corey big boy, Now, huh. I
Speaker 2: love this. I love that that Sean remembers it. That's
Speaker 2: what it feels like to me, Like Sean was there, like,
Speaker 2: well remember when he did that. That was a cute.
Speaker 2: Corey big Boy now you're.
Speaker 1: Putting putting put in business? Did it tap it? Now?
Speaker 2: Corey presses his parents again. Why didn't you push me
Speaker 2: to be anything great? You didn't help me find what
Speaker 2: I was good at. I don't want to be one
Speaker 2: of those people who has no first place trophies and
Speaker 2: no special talents. Why didn't you want me to be better?
Speaker 2: Alan questions better than what Corey shouts back, better than
Speaker 2: what I am? Alan is disappointed. What are you saying,
Speaker 2: Corey emotions to everything around him. I'm saying better than this.
Speaker 2: Alan needs clarification. You mean better than me, Corey notds Yeah,
Speaker 2: better than you. Amy tries to jump in, but Corey continues,
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna be great at anything because I was
Speaker 2: raised to be average. And he looks at his dad.
Speaker 2: I'm average because you're average. Alan hangs his head in shame,
Speaker 2: and Corey realizes he may have taken it too far.
Speaker 2: That was harsh, intense commercial break when this boy meets
Speaker 2: that's what the song sounds like when it's.
Speaker 1: Intense the Elliott Smith version.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, So we go to an intense commercial break,
Speaker 2: and then we come back when we're in the Penbrook
Speaker 2: dorms Sean is sitting outside and gives a light knock
Speaker 2: on the door. Core you gotta come out. Sometime After
Speaker 2: no response, Sean reaches into his pocket and jiggles his keys. Hey,
Speaker 2: look who it is. It's the ice cream man. He says,
Speaker 2: he has Corey's favorite fl Inside, we see Corey sitting
Speaker 2: on his bed, unamused vanilla.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right is good. It's you can't find the
Speaker 1: ice cream? Come on, it's good. Oh so good.
Speaker 2: Outside, Topanga and Angela walk up to see Sean on
Speaker 2: the floor. He explains that Corey's locked himself inside and
Speaker 2: won't come out for anyone. Apparently he's searching the caverns
Speaker 2: of his soul. Tapang is terrified. Oh no, not the caverns.
Speaker 2: Corey opened this door on cue. Corey flings it open
Speaker 2: and the girl's file inside. Corey takes a look around
Speaker 2: the hall. There's no ice cream Man's.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: I Also, one thing I did like about this was
Speaker 4: it wasn't Topanga that talked him down from anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Episode, I know Topanga by the ways living her best
Speaker 2: life with Angela. Yeah, and Sean is left to deal
Speaker 2: with him, which is great.
Speaker 4: I liked that.
Speaker 1: I liked.
Speaker 4: It was like going back to an old school storyline
Speaker 4: where it's not Corey and it was Corey and Sean,
Speaker 4: which I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now they're all in the dorm room when Corey
Speaker 2: announces I did a terrible thing. I did the worst
Speaker 2: thing I could possibly do. I told my father he
Speaker 2: was average. Sean says, I told my dad that once.
Speaker 1: He was thrilled.
Speaker 2: Y s this is the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like the same story in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: It's Corey spinning out after an event with his dad.
Speaker 1: It's good. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: I love this Corey.
Speaker 2: Corey says his dad wasn't thrilled. He was crushed. I
Speaker 2: crushed my father to Pega suggests we all say things
Speaker 2: we don't mean. He'll understand, just apologize. But Corey's realized something.
Speaker 2: I meant what I said. I feel like I'm just
Speaker 2: a regular guy, Like my father's just a regular guy.
Speaker 2: How do I apologize for that? Angela consoles him, you
Speaker 2: are not just a regular guy. You're very good at
Speaker 2: a lot of things. Corey wants to know, like what
Speaker 2: Angela gives up. Don't press me on this. I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to make you feel better. It's so funny. Corey
Speaker 2: points out that everyone else knows what they're good at,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't. He's just standard issue in a plane wrapper.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious, what do we know that Angela is
Speaker 2: good at writing? I guess she got an A on
Speaker 2: her paper earlier in the in the in the episode,
Speaker 2: what what do we think to Panga is good at?
Speaker 1: What was good at school?
Speaker 2: She's just a good student. Virgin okay, a virgin virgin,
Speaker 2: A virgin at school okay, because we haven't.
Speaker 1: Got your virgin.
Speaker 4: She's kind of she's supposed to be the catch all
Speaker 4: because remember, it's like you go to the law firm,
Speaker 4: It's like, now it's going to be a law of
Speaker 4: everything you do, everything you attempt, you're good at. I
Speaker 4: would think, is where to Panga is?
Speaker 1: Because your news reporting? Was she good as a news report?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: She was sweating like a gat was.
Speaker 2: Listening like a pig. Yeah, I got so nervous. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I'm wondering because like, they haven't really spent
Speaker 2: a whole lot of time telling us what the women
Speaker 2: are good at.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: So Corey point out that everyone else knows what they're
Speaker 2: good at, but he doesn't. He's just standard issue in
Speaker 2: a plane wrapper. Sean says, so are dirty magazines and
Speaker 2: everybody loves them. Angela elbows him and Sean admits, okay,
Speaker 2: not you. Tapega urges her fiance to go home and
Speaker 2: speak to his dad. An average father may be angry
Speaker 2: with Corey, but his father isn't average. She assures him
Speaker 2: they'll be behind him the whole way. Corey opens the
Speaker 2: door to leave and Alan is standing right there. There's
Speaker 2: an audible gasp and Tapega asks how you doing. Alan
Speaker 2: grabs Corey's arm and tells him to get in the car.
Speaker 2: And then we're back at the apartment. Eric's pacing behind Jack,
Speaker 2: who's doing homework. Eric won't leave him alone. What are
Speaker 2: you gonna ask her for? What are gonna ask her for?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna ask her for? Final story?
Speaker 1: We're so excited to find out I can't she choose
Speaker 1: a man? She keeps one of that they have sex?
Speaker 1: Is that what Eric's thinking?
Speaker 4: Like, Oh, he's going to ask if that's because when
Speaker 4: she said I would do anything for you, He's assuming
Speaker 4: he's going to ask for a sex act.
Speaker 1: Is that yes, they're going to do the sex.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to do the sex. Yes, they're gonna.
Speaker 2: What he's gonna say is do the sex with me.
Speaker 1: So I saved your life and now you're going to
Speaker 1: have sex with me. That's that. She'll do anything, So
Speaker 1: that's the that's the whole.
Speaker 2: She'll do anything, the hot lady.
Speaker 1: She'll do anything, so enticing and fun. I was hoping
Speaker 1: I missed something.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I miss anything. Okay, he didn't.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna ask her for? What are you
Speaker 2: gonna ask for? Finally Jack answers, you want the truth,
Speaker 2: and Eric screams, I can't handle the truth.
Speaker 4: Everybody was doing that. It's a joke or something. So
Speaker 4: I can't handle the truth. You can't handle the truth everywhere.
Speaker 2: Then Jack calls Rachel into the kitchen. Eric can't believe this. Wait,
Speaker 2: it's pay up time right now in front of me.
Speaker 2: Rachel hops down the stairs, looking chipper and exposing another
Speaker 2: boom mic. She asks Jack if he's decided what he
Speaker 2: wants for saving her life, and he reveals, yes, I have.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your gratitude, so I've decided what I would
Speaker 2: like is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Eric pushes
Speaker 2: Jack out of the way. No, he grabs onto Rachel's legs.
Speaker 2: Don't give yourself to him just because he saved your life.
Speaker 2: Life is to live. Then he stops himself and slowly
Speaker 2: gets off the floor. Did you say peanut butter and
Speaker 2: jelly sandwich? Rachel is shocked too, that's all you want?
Speaker 2: Jack gives her a polite nod. Eric pulls him in close.
Speaker 2: She'll give you anything you ask for, and you ask
Speaker 2: for a peep and jay. Jack just doesn't want Rachel
Speaker 2: to feel like she owes him something. Eric doesn't get it.
Speaker 2: Then why did you save her life? Jack says he
Speaker 2: would have done the same thing. Eric asks, Oh what,
Speaker 2: just because I like her and I respect her and
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to take advantage of her. Jack says, yeah,
Speaker 2: that Eric gets it. He turns to Rachel and meagerly asks,
Speaker 2: could I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich too?
Speaker 2: Rachel smiles but shakes her head. No, she started making one.
Speaker 2: Why can't she make two?
Speaker 1: I love peanut butter and jelly. I just need his
Speaker 1: episode to end so that I can make one.
Speaker 2: Okay, wonderful, that's almost.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: If you put some Doritos in it, regular rules, discust
Speaker 2: one about ruffles, Yeah, ruffles inside, Yeah, incredible writer. It's
Speaker 2: so good guys. Mm hmmm. I'm sorry you don't have
Speaker 2: good taste.
Speaker 4: It's you won't You just won't be coming to our restaurant,
Speaker 4: the PB and J with Potato Chip restaurant, just GARB restaurant.
Speaker 2: A diner on bread and.
Speaker 1: Everything that you could buy in the aisles whatever.
Speaker 2: How's your flake skin car exactly? How's that working out
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 1: From Costco and Bulk And.
Speaker 2: How's that working out for you?
Speaker 4: We're going to start with a chain restaurant, That's what
Speaker 4: We're not even starting with one place.
Speaker 1: We're starting with starting with locations.
Speaker 2: All the same time, a pop up on the same day.
Speaker 2: Love it. And then we have returned to the streets
Speaker 2: of Philadelphia. Alan Corey walk along a street of small businesses.
Speaker 2: Corey is nervous. I realize you're angry, and I want
Speaker 2: you to know I said a terrible thing, and I
Speaker 2: have no idea where to even begin to apologize. Alan
Speaker 2: simply states, I'm sorry, you meant it. He stops in
Speaker 2: front of a boarded up stores. Do you know what
Speaker 2: this is?
Speaker 1: Corey?
Speaker 2: Guesses the abandoned warehouse where no one will hear my screams.
Speaker 2: Alan says his first job was sweeping up here at
Speaker 2: Drew's Hardware. He took over after his father retired. In fact,
Speaker 2: his father spent forty years with a broom in his hand.
Speaker 2: Alan earnestly says, I wish he could see all I
Speaker 2: have now. He turns his attention to Corey. Why are
Speaker 2: you so ashamed of being average? Corey stutters, so Alan
Speaker 2: demands him to look at the store, look at it,
Speaker 2: touch it, get some dirt on your hands, try and
Speaker 2: see what average looked like from here. To me, average
Speaker 2: was a dream. That's why my father worked his butt off.
Speaker 2: So maybe his son could have something more. Alan says
Speaker 2: he respected his father because he did the best that
Speaker 2: he could. He was proud of him, and he knows
Speaker 2: he'd be proud of him too. Corey's speechless as Alan continues,
Speaker 2: maybe if my son thinks average is nothing, then I've
Speaker 2: done my job. I'm sorry that you're not a lot.
Speaker 3: I know because it's an interesting like it's very nuanced,
Speaker 3: but it's a good point. Like if my son is
Speaker 3: able to be dismissive of average, of average, then that
Speaker 3: means I've actually done something really and that that's kind
Speaker 3: of more to the point to me because I'm this
Speaker 3: whole time, I was like, why doesn't.
Speaker 1: Corey have a job? Like Eric had to have a job,
Speaker 1: and Corey has not ever had to have a job.
Speaker 1: We've never seen him.
Speaker 2: Work, right, well that only when he was in the
Speaker 2: restaurant and you took over for the mob and.
Speaker 3: To Panga work in the restaurant, and Angela had job,
Speaker 3: but like Corey is like what gonna go to Collin's.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of emphasis on Eric working and
Speaker 3: none on Corey. And part of me was like, well,
Speaker 3: maybe that's because Corey, you know, does have something going
Speaker 3: for him, Like that's better than I don't know, like
Speaker 3: it it was this is yeah, this this scene brought
Speaker 3: up more questions than answers for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why where do they work?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Do they own the store? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't. They don't really acknowledge.
Speaker 1: That an interesting.
Speaker 3: Relationship with class because it was like Shawn's supposed to
Speaker 3: be the like blue collar dad worked his whole life
Speaker 3: to survive, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like Sean says it, you do not have a
Speaker 2: mediocre life. He Sean says it when he talked went
Speaker 2: in that previous scene where he's talking to Cory when
Speaker 2: Corey says, like, my mediocre life, and he goes, WHOA,
Speaker 2: you do not have a mediocre life. And so you
Speaker 2: get the sense that like Sean would kill for Corey's life,
Speaker 2: not necessarily, not like he wants to actually be in
Speaker 2: his place, but to have had the security and comfort
Speaker 2: that Corey's had and has taken for granted Shawn's and ever.
Speaker 1: STI average, you know, income coming in. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Seana roof over his head. But again we've said this
Speaker 1: a billion times. How good is Rusty?
Speaker 4: Oh my man, I mean he hit ninety two beats
Speaker 4: in this in this monologue, and he's just so good.
Speaker 3: This is a weird thing that I was thinking about, like,
Speaker 3: and I don't have a conclusion or any real good
Speaker 3: thoughts about it, but it's it's it's so like on
Speaker 3: one end, you're talking about cultural production like art, right,
Speaker 3: like the production of art and singing, and on the
Speaker 3: other hand, you're talking about work ethic and like taking
Speaker 3: the job just and I don't know that this episode
Speaker 3: makes sense of those two impulses being the same, Like
Speaker 3: is it like is Alexandra a great artist because she
Speaker 3: worked hard? Or is she a great artist because she's
Speaker 3: naturally talented and genius? Like I don't feel like the
Speaker 3: episode really like that's a tough question to answer, Like
Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't know, And I feel
Speaker 3: like it's not ends up not being about that, like
Speaker 3: because like there's no recognition that like lind Lindsay can sing,
Speaker 3: like Morgan's ability to sing is separate from her willingness
Speaker 3: to do it, like the actual work ethic, Like I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's That's why I think it's
Speaker 1: almost the scene hit me.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait, it's not about Corey not working hard,
Speaker 3: it's about Corey being good at something.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know this, That's the thing.
Speaker 4: I think there's there's they're also trying to say that
Speaker 4: it's like not everyone is born with a gift, but
Speaker 4: you can still find happiness in your life even if
Speaker 4: you're not born quote unquote special. Yeah, so it's like
Speaker 4: you know, Rusty Fat, you still have to work hard
Speaker 4: or still.
Speaker 2: Have to Sure, I have no doubt that Alexander Nikita
Speaker 2: worked hard to be a painter. But like when you're
Speaker 2: giving a two year old paint and they're obviously she
Speaker 2: was better than other two year olds. She was she
Speaker 2: has a gift that most do not. And then in
Speaker 2: conjunction with working hard at it and continuing to do it,
Speaker 2: she became a prodigy. She became a phenomenon. And so
Speaker 2: in this case, Corey is saying, well, no one ever
Speaker 2: pushed me to find if I had a gift. You
Speaker 2: let me fall out of everything. What if I if
Speaker 2: you pushed me hard enough to insist on pursuing things
Speaker 2: like the ukulele? What if I would have then been
Speaker 2: the best ever at it? And instead look at me,
Speaker 2: I'm just average? And Alan is thinking, and you know,
Speaker 2: and then it ties into Alan's point, which is like, wow,
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, average would have been the
Speaker 2: average was my biggest dream and.
Speaker 4: Almost once again showing that in a way, Alan was
Speaker 4: like Sean more than he was like Corey. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: it was like he turned his life around and look
Speaker 4: what he was able to do for his kids. And
Speaker 4: now my son doesn't appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now my kids saying it's garbage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very nuanced. There's a lot of different levels.
Speaker 2: Maybe if my son thinks average is nothing. Then I've
Speaker 2: done my job. I'm sorry that you're not proud. He
Speaker 2: gestures to the store of him and he points to
Speaker 2: himself and me, and then he likes on Corey and yourself.
Speaker 2: Sad music plays as Alan walks away, leaving his son
Speaker 2: alone in a very sketchy neighborhood of bankrupt businesses.
Speaker 1: And litter at night at night.
Speaker 4: Just get your hopefully you'll come home get Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Let's see how your average skills do against knife attacks.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's your skill.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe gonna be an Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 6: You're a secret assassin. Let's find out.
Speaker 2: The sixth annual quaker Ridge Youth Center Talent Show. Everyone
Speaker 2: knows that one Corey, Allen and Amy are in the
Speaker 2: front row, while it's.
Speaker 1: Talented younger that they showed too. I was like, where
Speaker 1: are we It looks like the Performing Arts Center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a yeah, the Youth Center Talent Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: A talented young girl who we can now assume is
Speaker 2: Eloise Eichelberger twirls flaming batons gracefully in the air.
Speaker 3: This is a big choice because when you have flame
Speaker 3: overflame on a set, you have to have a fire,
Speaker 3: marsh that's what.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal. Why did we Why was it that?
Speaker 2: But I guess they had to do something big because
Speaker 2: the whole joke is that she's just gonna sing. A
Speaker 2: woman next to Amy, presumably missus Eichelberger, nudges her with arrogance.
Speaker 2: The two women give each other fake smiles, and then
Speaker 2: Amy leans over to her husband. Big deal. She twirls batons,
Speaker 2: but Alan's in awe, wow, look at all that fire
Speaker 2: in the air. Corey nudges his dad, but Alan shows
Speaker 2: him away. He's loving this. Morgan and Alexandra watch Eloise
Speaker 2: from the wings. Alexander admits she's good, and Morgan agrees
Speaker 2: she's the best fire juggler in the county. She's gonna win.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sing. Alexandra is shocked, but Morgan insists
Speaker 2: I don't want to. Aren't there times when you don't
Speaker 2: want to paint? The Prodigy admits when people first started
Speaker 2: to make a big deal out of it, I didn't
Speaker 2: want to be different from all my friends. But I
Speaker 2: love to paint, and that's why I do it. Don't
Speaker 2: you love to sing? Morgan shrugs. Yeah, I do so.
Speaker 2: Alexandra declares, then that's your gift, and if you're lucky
Speaker 2: enough that God gave you one, I think you should
Speaker 2: share it. The fire juggler finally ends her performance and
Speaker 2: the crowd applauds. A host takes the stage and thanks Eloise.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tough act to follow. We've had
Speaker 2: quite a night. They had fire batons, that little boy
Speaker 2: that juggled ducks, and a special thank you to the
Speaker 2: double jointed plunket twins. Alan stands up and gives a
Speaker 2: rowdy applause for the being over questions school girls, That's
Speaker 2: what I was gonna say, do we this is just
Speaker 2: a talent show. We don't know because my first thought
Speaker 2: was this is a high school talent show. But actually
Speaker 2: it is the sixth annual quaker Ridge Youths. No, it's
Speaker 2: Youth Center gross. It's just as gross as I thought.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, it is all right.
Speaker 2: I would have loved someone to make it a different choice. There, Okay.
Speaker 2: Alan stands up gives a rowdy applause for that act.
Speaker 2: The host continues, and now our final entry will be
Speaker 2: Morgan Matthews, who will sing a song, Alexandra gives her
Speaker 2: friend a big hug, and Amy shoots to her feet.
Speaker 2: Yay Morgan, Mommy loves You. On stage, Morgan presses play
Speaker 2: on her CD player and then takes the microphone to
Speaker 2: sing wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler and the audience.
Speaker 2: Corey turns to his ad I can't live like this.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Alan whispers, don't worry about it. He's so rude,
Speaker 2: so rude, his sister's thing and he just can't I know,
Speaker 2: but it is funny way to jumps up saying.
Speaker 1: Too, man, it's so cool to hear it. I was like, wow, talent,
Speaker 1: you know. And you remember her singing on the set.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was really so nice to hear. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, and they gave her.
Speaker 4: Something to do.
Speaker 1: And then halfway through her thing on it was funny
Speaker 1: this whispering like interrupting her. I kept I was like,
Speaker 1: where's that going? Once he got up and signed was great.
Speaker 1: Totally forgot he was singing. I totally forgot. This happened
Speaker 1: me too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he just kept interrupting, I was like, oh god.
Speaker 2: But then it ends up being very funny, So Alan whispers,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it before we turning his full attention
Speaker 2: to Morgan's performance. She gets to the chorus of the
Speaker 2: song and Corey can't contain himself. He sings along, directing
Speaker 2: his words to his dad.
Speaker 3: I would have loved I would have loved if he
Speaker 3: doesn't say anything, and it's just a shot of Corey
Speaker 3: and his dad, and you watch Corey listening to the
Speaker 3: song and realizing this is me singing to my dad
Speaker 3: and I'm being inspired, and then you just watch him
Speaker 3: jump up.
Speaker 1: Jump up, because there's no moment where you see Corey
Speaker 1: realize that the.
Speaker 3: Sting correction right if we need him make the decision,
Speaker 3: been a million times funnier, and it wouldn't He wouldn't
Speaker 3: have to say anything.
Speaker 1: You can just see a closeup of him going, this song.
Speaker 2: Is me, this is what I need is how I
Speaker 2: can do it. He could also have jumped up on
Speaker 2: stage and pushed her out of the way, take it
Speaker 2: over the microphone and just done this.
Speaker 1: You know, you know that's what Wilfred Dell would have
Speaker 1: I I command the stage.
Speaker 2: What can I say? Morgan, Alan and Amy are flustered,
Speaker 2: but she continues to sing on the stage. Corey jumps
Speaker 2: to his feet, now pumping his fists, singing to his dad,
Speaker 2: disturbing the audience and stealing the thunder from his sister.
Speaker 2: Alan and Amy slumped in their seats, mortified, but Corey
Speaker 2: doesn't stop, turning the song into a duet with Morgan.
Speaker 2: Corey even acts out some of the lyrics. The talent
Speaker 2: show is now over and the crowd is gone. Morgan
Speaker 2: hops down to meet her mom and Alexandra, the painter
Speaker 2: hugs Morgan and tells her she did an amazing job.
Speaker 2: Corey asks, how is I? Alexandra whispers to Amy and
Speaker 2: repeats from earlier, I'm not supposed to lie.
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 2: Amy whispers, let's just go, and the girls leave. Alan
Speaker 2: starts to go with them, but Corey stops him. I
Speaker 2: think I said all that stuff earlier because I was
Speaker 2: afraid about my life. When you meet somebody great like Alexandra,
Speaker 2: you begin to wonder if you're worth anything, and if
Speaker 2: I'm not, it was easier to blame you. I know
Speaker 2: it's up to me to make my life something i'm
Speaker 2: proud of. Alan shrugs, that's what life's about. You spend
Speaker 2: your time searching for something to give your life meaning.
Speaker 2: Some people find it in their talent. Corey wonders, what
Speaker 2: if I'm not talented? Alan answers other people find it
Speaker 2: in other ways. He pulls his son in close. You
Speaker 2: know when I guy this, Yeah, Yeah, this is the
Speaker 2: sort of This is the blurring of the two where
Speaker 2: it's whatever gives you meaning. For some people it's a
Speaker 2: gift or a talent. Correct and nurture it. Yeah, He
Speaker 2: pulls his son in close. You know, when I knew
Speaker 2: my life was worth something. Alexandra appears again, and she
Speaker 2: finishes always Yeah, she's the cousin.
Speaker 1: She lives there now.
Speaker 2: She finishes alan sentence, when I held you in my arms.
Speaker 2: Alan asks how she knew he was going to say that,
Speaker 2: and Alexander smiles, That's what my daddy always says to me.
Speaker 2: And then she pulls out a lollipop.
Speaker 1: She really say daddy, She really no, she says dad right,
Speaker 1: and she says daddy.
Speaker 6: I think she says daddy yeah, and Big wheels off
Speaker 6: the set.
Speaker 1: That's what Papa says to me.
Speaker 2: Right before he puts my diaper on.
Speaker 1: She goes on tour and Morgan this is has one
Speaker 1: more scene in the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we're back at the apartment for the tag.
Speaker 2: Eric is on the floor with his hair standing straight up.
Speaker 2: So Eric's on the floor with his hair standing straight up,
Speaker 2: mouth wide open, eyes closed. He's holding a toaster, and
Speaker 2: the barstools around him have toppled over. Rachel walks out
Speaker 2: of her room to find him and panics at first,
Speaker 2: then realizes what he's trying to do here. She plays along,
Speaker 2: Oh Eric, my poor Eric, are you okay? Wake up?
Speaker 2: Then Jack walks into the apartment, unmoved by his friends shenanigans.
Speaker 2: He asks what's going on and Rachel deadpants. Eric's dead.
Speaker 2: Jack shrugs cool. Then Eric jolts's body and Rachel gasps,
Speaker 2: I think he's alive. She asks Jack what she can do,
Speaker 2: and then perks up, Oh, I know mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Speaker 2: Eric can't help but smile at the sound of that,
Speaker 2: but tries to maintain his deadness. Rachel sighs, oh, shoot,
Speaker 2: you know what I don't know, mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Speaker 2: Do you know CPR? Jack? Jack catches our signal, so
Speaker 2: he responds, yes, I do, so just move aside, sweetheart.
Speaker 2: He gets close enough to Eric to illicit gay panic,
Speaker 2: forcing Eric to come to life and jump away. He
Speaker 2: looks at both of them and shakes his head. Oh
Speaker 2: that's right, make fun of the dead, and he walks off.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do like it when Rachel's smarter, you know,
Speaker 3: like whenever she's messing with them, Yeah, just better, like yeah,
Speaker 3: her being clueless in the first two scenes of the storyline.
Speaker 1: It's like really, yeah, yeah, Well that's fine. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you like it because you're probably gonna see it again
Speaker 1: next week.
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