Speaker 1: I have an etiquette question for the to you, okay,
Speaker 1: and it's a genuine question because I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Something kind of strange happened, and Sue and I have
Speaker 1: been talking about it and we're not sure if it
Speaker 1: was a breach of etiquette or not, So please tell me.
Speaker 2: As you and.
Speaker 1: Our dear listeners know, Sue and I walk our dog
Speaker 1: all the time. It really helps to meet neighbors. And
Speaker 1: we met a while back during the pandemic, an older couple,
Speaker 1: probably mid to.
Speaker 2: Late seventies, walk a beautiful dog. They're very nice people.
Speaker 2: We talk to them all the time.
Speaker 1: So maybe a week ago we run into them again,
Speaker 1: and you know, we get to talking and we're talking
Speaker 1: about how we're doing a little bit of construction at
Speaker 1: the house, you know, nothing big. We're having some painting done.
Speaker 1: We're you know, doing patching some walls, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And they mentioned they'd like to have some construction done
Speaker 1: as well. They were taking bids and we were like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: we love our guy, he's the best. You should come
Speaker 1: and or we can give you the number whatever, and
Speaker 1: he said, actually, could I maybe stop by later and
Speaker 1: talk to him because he was going to be at
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: I said, great, no problem. He said, this is your house, right,
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, yeah, it's a house.
Speaker 3: So I have to leave.
Speaker 2: I tell Sue that they may be stopping.
Speaker 1: By, because Sue wasn't with you on this walk where
Speaker 1: she was but no, excuse me, you're right, she was not.
Speaker 2: She was not.
Speaker 1: I was solo on this one. And so Sue I
Speaker 1: tell her. She comes back, I tell her, hey, they
Speaker 1: might be stopping by. Later, she says, okay, yeah, no problem,
Speaker 1: be great to see him, and so to stay out
Speaker 1: of the constructions, people way, people's way. A little bit
Speaker 1: later in the day, Sue takes the dog out into
Speaker 1: the backyard and she says, she looks up and the
Speaker 1: guy is standing in our home. I'm sorry, yeah, so
Speaker 1: he just walked into the house. What Yeah, so weird
Speaker 1: breach of etiquette, right, never been here before.
Speaker 3: I would call it more. I'd call it breaking and entering.
Speaker 1: Now, in all fairness, now I want to add, we
Speaker 1: have a construction crew going in and out.
Speaker 2: The front door.
Speaker 4: None of this is going to matter. It's not changing
Speaker 4: a single thing.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
Speaker 5: We don't think it would change if the door was open. Correct,
Speaker 5: There was a construction guy that he followed in talking to.
Speaker 1: He wasn't He was standing by himself in the middle
Speaker 1: of the living room looking out over our backyard.
Speaker 5: Shows up and there's like somebody that he's talking to
Speaker 5: or wants to talk to, and the door's open, and
Speaker 5: the guy's like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's where I went.
Speaker 1: Is like, so the front door was obviously unlocked and
Speaker 1: open because or unlocked because there's guys going in and
Speaker 1: out there. They're sawing stuff in the front of the
Speaker 1: house but never been here before and just walked in.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't walk with that. I wouldn't just walk into
Speaker 2: your homes without.
Speaker 6: Do you think maybe he knocked and didn't get an
Speaker 6: answer and they.
Speaker 3: Don't get correct, you are gone.
Speaker 4: I would be like, Also, if I were talking to
Speaker 4: let's go with writer's first idea that maybe the guy
Speaker 4: let him inside the house, I would also go, Okay, sorry,
Speaker 4: can we finish our conversation. I would still never be like,
Speaker 4: you have permission to be inside their home. I have
Speaker 4: not been given I'm not going to enter their home.
Speaker 5: I'm just not doing why and Will said, yeah, you
Speaker 5: can stop buying and talk to our construction guy. So
Speaker 5: maybe he assumed that meant, even if we're not home
Speaker 5: because the work's getting done, you can come find our
Speaker 5: construction guy and talk to him.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know either, and I've been doing what Rider did,
Speaker 1: like because he's such a nice older man like kind
Speaker 1: of trying to rationalize it.
Speaker 2: Or justify it. But to me, I couldn't fathom just
Speaker 2: walking into somebody's house.
Speaker 4: Nope, nope, nope, no, u uh no, I mean, don't
Speaker 4: preach a icate right absolutely, By the way, if I
Speaker 4: stopped this is me and you. If I stopped at
Speaker 4: your house to say drop something off, and I walked
Speaker 4: in and your door was open, I might be a
Speaker 4: little concerned enough to peek my head in and go,
Speaker 4: will Susan because my? Because I would think, hmm, they
Speaker 4: don't normally leave their door open.
Speaker 3: Also, where's Sammy?
Speaker 4: So like I would get a little kid and I'd
Speaker 4: be like, And then if I noticed there was construction
Speaker 4: going on, I'd be like, Okay, they're probably aware, and
Speaker 4: I don't see Sammy. Then I would walk away from
Speaker 4: your house and text you. I even would not walk
Speaker 4: into your house and go on a search. I would
Speaker 4: text you and say, your door's open. Do you know that,
Speaker 4: Are you okay? And if I didn't get a response,
Speaker 4: maybe at some point I would be like, Okay, I've
Speaker 4: got to go in there, because one, if he's lying,
Speaker 4: they're dead. But like I even would not walk into
Speaker 4: your house.
Speaker 1: She was so taken aback you and then like, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing. He's like, oh, and the construction guy
Speaker 1: wasn't there. The main guy wasn't there at the time,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't able to talk to him.
Speaker 2: So it was there, and she was like, he was
Speaker 2: just in our home.
Speaker 3: She didn't say, how did you get in?
Speaker 1: Well, no, I don't think so, No, I don't think
Speaker 1: because I think you're so flustered by that part. So
Speaker 1: you're just in our house and he's just standing there
Speaker 1: kind of in the living room like looking at me.
Speaker 4: So it should be explained to our dear listeners. Will
Speaker 4: also has a gate.
Speaker 3: You have to open two doors to get inside your house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's actually very true.
Speaker 1: The outer gate may have been opened for the construction guys,
Speaker 1: but it's clearly you got to get through two levels
Speaker 1: of security to get in.
Speaker 4: Right here, you already walked through one that may have
Speaker 4: been open there unless your front door was wide open,
Speaker 4: in which case, even if he was walking in, He's
Speaker 4: like he wasn't going, Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Then when he saw her, I got worried. The door's opened.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 4: He's just like, hey, I'm here, Yeah, can I make
Speaker 4: myself a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much what it was.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm glad I wasn't because I was like,
Speaker 1: that's weird and that's a total breach of etiquette. And
Speaker 1: then again, like Rider, I was trying to kind of
Speaker 1: justifight in my head, well maybe it's not Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a generational thing and when you're old, you used to
Speaker 1: just walk into place.
Speaker 3: I mean he's mid seventies, said mid to late seventies.
Speaker 2: He's not one hundred and five.
Speaker 3: He's not ancient.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So I okay, I wasn't wrong. Okay, then
Speaker 2: it's okay.
Speaker 6: That's still do I mean, what what do you? There's
Speaker 6: nothing to do?
Speaker 1: I'm I mean what I First of all, I went,
Speaker 1: I broke into his house when they were sleeping and.
Speaker 3: Say that's what you do.
Speaker 1: Then you escalated and I was just crouching over them asleep,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what were you thinking?
Speaker 2: That's so weird. But while petting his dog just creepily. No,
Speaker 2: there's nothing to do.
Speaker 3: You should you should do that and then just be like,
Speaker 3: I see why you want to have some work done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see this places?
Speaker 3: You could do the construction yourself. Will you could go
Speaker 3: in just a tool belt?
Speaker 2: Did you want to did you want.
Speaker 3: To knock down this wall? Because i'mknoking down this wall?
Speaker 1: Great, just naked with a tool belt, but a Fisher
Speaker 1: Price tool belt just make it really creepy.
Speaker 4: I have one.
Speaker 1: I have one for you, little plastic kind of saws
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Oh man, we could Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could escalate it. If he does it again, I think
Speaker 1: I'd have to say something.
Speaker 2: Even joking you have to kill him. I'd be like,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, dude, you can't.
Speaker 1: He can't just walk into the house, Like he can't
Speaker 1: just walk into our house. Yeah, okay, So I'm glad
Speaker 1: I wasn't wrong.
Speaker 4: You're not wrong. Oh god, I love that you think
Speaker 4: that because we've made fun of you so much for
Speaker 4: your safety stuff. You're like, maybe I really am is
Speaker 4: a man walking into my home?
Speaker 3: Too far?
Speaker 4: Guys?
Speaker 3: Can I can be a great.
Speaker 2: Checking I'm checking okay, good, Welcome to.
Speaker 4: Pad Meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel.
Speaker 6: I'm right or strong?
Speaker 2: Can I Can I come in? Can I come in
Speaker 2: the pod?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh thanks? And I'm Wilfredell.
Speaker 4: Welcome to today's episode recap. It is season six, episode
Speaker 4: ten and in case I don't see you. It originally
Speaker 4: aired December fourth, nineteen ninety eight. The synopsis. In an
Speaker 4: effort to become more popular, Eric creates his own TV
Speaker 4: show similar to The Truman Show, but it's Rachel who
Speaker 4: becomes the campus darling. Meanwhile, Corey and Sean expect special
Speaker 4: treatment from mister Feenie. It was directed by David Kendall
Speaker 4: and it was written by Barry Safcheck. Before I jump
Speaker 4: into our guest stars, what are your overall thoughts? Well,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you have a bunch of stories about this week.
Speaker 1: I think I mercifully blocked this week from my head.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, I don't remember much.
Speaker 1: I will say that this, to me is a tale
Speaker 1: of two shows. I thought the b story with Corey
Speaker 1: and Sean felt a little bit like Boy Meets World again,
Speaker 1: trying to pull one over on mister Feenie.
Speaker 6: So nice to get.
Speaker 1: Back to that Sean is Sean's you and Ben are
Speaker 1: just trying to make each other laugh time.
Speaker 2: I was so happy with that first line out of
Speaker 2: my mouth.
Speaker 6: I was like, that'sh Sean.
Speaker 3: Italian.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just so loved it.
Speaker 1: The Truman Show stuff was horrible and absolutely cringe really,
Speaker 1: and I just didn't like it.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't like anything about it.
Speaker 6: I thought it was you know, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't like anything about it.
Speaker 1: It was I just yeah, I get what they were
Speaker 1: doing was supposed to be the whole parody, but I
Speaker 1: didn't like it. I didn't like my performance. I didn't
Speaker 1: like the story. I thought it was weird and creepy.
Speaker 2: And I just it just wasn't. But I loved I
Speaker 2: thought the.
Speaker 5: Beast really enjoyed it. I totally thought it was fun.
Speaker 5: You know, it felt like it like it could have
Speaker 5: been another show, Like I don't know, but that's what
Speaker 5: I mean. It was, yeah, but it was fine, Like
Speaker 5: you know, I just totally.
Speaker 2: Wasn't It wasn't wasn't a fan of it, but loved
Speaker 2: the b story.
Speaker 1: Stuff felt like it was like Alan's being Alan again
Speaker 1: and Phoenie's being Phoenie, and Corey and Sean are Corey
Speaker 1: and Sean to Panga running after Phoenie.
Speaker 2: I loved all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I really didn't I I similarly to writer, I really
Speaker 4: enjoyed it for the most part. All of my all
Speaker 4: of my criticism are things where then I hear I
Speaker 4: think it to myself and I then think, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: this is what people talk about when they say you're
Speaker 4: just over analyzing it. Like in the scene where there's
Speaker 4: music playing when Eric is on the screen with Rachel
Speaker 4: and the Truman Show in the Sooon Union, there's music and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, who's playing the music? Where's the music?
Speaker 6: And it's like telling you where.
Speaker 4: Is that coming from? Like what is that?
Speaker 3: What's happening? So like okay, but who cares?
Speaker 6: Let me go movable sprinklers in the ceiling.
Speaker 5: I mean that's that's just like, okay, this is just
Speaker 5: so ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Used to see these.
Speaker 1: It's one of my performance stuff and stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: I thought was really funny with Sean. I thought Sean
Speaker 1: was really funny.
Speaker 3: And Sean's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Funny in this episode is so good and all that
Speaker 1: opening scene, I was like, oh, this could be a
Speaker 1: great episode, Like here we go. I was ready for it,
Speaker 1: and then when they got into the Truman show stuff,
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, yeah, it just it just
Speaker 1: wasn't for me.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 4: One of my other little criticisms about it was and
Speaker 4: I know that again, the whole point was just to
Speaker 4: do Truman so that we didn't need that much. We
Speaker 4: didn't need all that, but I did. I did wonder like,
Speaker 4: why does he come up? Why does he think this
Speaker 4: would make him popular? How does and then when he's
Speaker 4: not popular, how come then? Like because it doesn't make
Speaker 4: him popular, why doesn't that stop it?
Speaker 3: Right then and there? Like, Oh, they don't care about
Speaker 3: the right person, right.
Speaker 6: And I was.
Speaker 2: Also going to say I was also gonna say, I thought.
Speaker 1: I think it's weird coming off of last week's episode
Speaker 1: where Eric is like the popular guy in school and
Speaker 1: everyone's surround.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: But then I remembered what Ryder said about Maitland's hair,
Speaker 1: and her hair is long in this episode, so it
Speaker 1: is clearly out of order. Interesting, Yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: what you said about how short her hair.
Speaker 2: Was last week.
Speaker 1: It's long in this episode, so this is out of
Speaker 1: order from how he shot it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I mean I was going to say, you know,
Speaker 5: jumping on what Danielle was saying. The problem that I
Speaker 5: did feel is like, and this is maybe the problem
Speaker 5: with Eric.
Speaker 6: I just don't know what his like essential motivation is.
Speaker 5: They like in this one he wants to be popular,
Speaker 5: and the other one he's easily popular, but he needs
Speaker 5: to do good in school. Sometimes it seems like it's
Speaker 5: about Maitland, like he wants Rachel, he wants a girlfriend,
Speaker 5: but it's he's which is like, not that big of
Speaker 5: a deal, except that in previous seasons, whenever Eric was
Speaker 5: doing something crazy, it always felt like, you know, he
Speaker 5: was because.
Speaker 1: He is a demotivate guy who needs to get he
Speaker 1: just wants a girl.
Speaker 5: And that was like three, which was fine. It's just
Speaker 5: we know, we know his shtick and he's going to
Speaker 5: do all the weird, crazy things, but they're all coming
Speaker 5: from like one central like motivated place.
Speaker 6: And then it was get at SAT's get it to college.
Speaker 5: And now I'm like, it's just weak to week whatever
Speaker 5: they really need to set up putting you in a
Speaker 5: costume and having you do something and while the end
Speaker 5: result is still hysterical most of the time and like.
Speaker 4: Whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 5: It does feel a little like this could be any
Speaker 5: three characters, and it's just Eric is just the loose cannon.
Speaker 5: Like Eric is just whatever whatever is going to throw
Speaker 5: three roommates into a crazy situation. Yeah, that's what Eric's
Speaker 5: going to be that week, And.
Speaker 2: Well I think that could.
Speaker 1: The writers have kind of said to us towards the
Speaker 1: end season six and season seven especially, it was like
Speaker 1: we kind of just wanted to see what you would do, right,
Speaker 1: So it's just like, let's see how far we could
Speaker 1: push it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what you could do. Let's make it wacky
Speaker 2: and funny.
Speaker 1: And that was just kind of my role in the
Speaker 1: show from now on is just random, unmotivated wacky craziness
Speaker 1: where I end up.
Speaker 6: And I think that's why I have no recollection of this.
Speaker 2: You know, I do what happened, but I didn't remember
Speaker 2: certain water and all that kind of Stuff's what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like I'm sitting, I'm like I was on set there,
Speaker 6: must have seen some of.
Speaker 1: The you know what.
Speaker 4: I remember the one thing I remembered, you spilling the soup.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember that too, the spilling the
Speaker 1: super Remember the soup.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing it in Run throughs. I remember the soup.
Speaker 4: That's the one thing I remember about the entire week,
Speaker 4: and it's probably just because it got an uproarious laugh
Speaker 4: and run throughs. And then also in taping.
Speaker 5: We probably weren't even there for most of the taping.
Speaker 5: We would have been checked out, Like if we had
Speaker 5: pre taped all the B story stuff, we would have
Speaker 5: just been like barely there on tape night then.
Speaker 2: And I also haven't shaved this week.
Speaker 4: For I do notice.
Speaker 3: Mustache. Yeah, but still peak will yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it.
Speaker 1: It's we're going downhill any second now, it's gonna know.
Speaker 2: It's you just watched the cliff that the cliff is coming.
Speaker 1: I'm Thelma and I'm holding hands with my younger self and.
Speaker 2: The cliff is coming.
Speaker 3: I know the feeling. But just you get a whole season.
Speaker 4: Well, I promise you get a whole You get a
Speaker 4: whole season.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 4: So guest starring Madison Igoton as young Rachel. Madison started
Speaker 4: her acting career as Picard's kid in the movie Star
Speaker 4: Trek Generations, and would also beer on Doctor Quinn, Medicine,
Speaker 4: Woman Er, Touched by an Angel and Everybody Hates Chris
Speaker 4: but she is best known as Tom Cruise and Nicole
Speaker 4: Kidman's daughter in Stanley Kubrick's final movie, Eyes Wide Shot.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say she was best
Speaker 2: known her mom Cruise, Like, wait, what.
Speaker 4: Isn't that surprise. Her last acting credit was in twenty ten.
Speaker 4: She has since moved into the field of education, teaching
Speaker 4: at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
Speaker 4: and then opening her own company, The Theatrical Education Group
Speaker 4: and its Summer Arts Conservatory, teaching acting, dance, music, and
Speaker 4: the visual arts to kids between the ages.
Speaker 3: Of nine and fifteen.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 2: That's cool. And she was great. And that was a
Speaker 2: very funny scene.
Speaker 5: That was super funny, like the flashback to Bunny Baby.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, I know, yeah, there's no way
Speaker 5: we can. I don't know. I was.
Speaker 6: I was on board with it.
Speaker 1: This is an.
Speaker 3: Absurd and I did love that.
Speaker 4: Then it reminded me like, oh, yeah, he does mention
Speaker 4: at the beginning, why aren't you putting the food in
Speaker 4: the garbage disposal, like it.
Speaker 2: Really, you know, to give her the ocean that he hates.
Speaker 4: And then we have Sean Weiss. He's back as Louis
Speaker 4: universally beloved is Goldberg from the Mighty Ducks movies. He
Speaker 4: was in so much funny stuff in the nineties, and
Speaker 4: this is his second of two Boy Meets World episodes.
Speaker 4: Jumping into our recap, we start in the student union.
Speaker 4: It is filled with students hanging out, continuing the trend
Speaker 4: of lots of background actors in season six. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Eric's sporting some new facial hair and you're still wearing
Speaker 4: your same little choker necklace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still got some room.
Speaker 4: So okay, yeah, this is what you say. By the
Speaker 4: end of the season, it's a little tighter.
Speaker 2: The bear has run away.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, it's like, my face is blue
Speaker 1: because it's just I'm like, no, I could still wear it,
Speaker 1: and I'm just, oh man, if this is.
Speaker 2: Fine, my ears are red, like it's not good.
Speaker 4: He's sitting by himself, drinking coffee out of a brew
Speaker 4: lagoon mug and stuff, and there's Louis. He's back sitting
Speaker 4: at the table next to Eric, watching all their classmates mingle.
Speaker 4: He sighs. Pretty depressing, isn't it. Eric wonders who he's
Speaker 4: talking to. Louis was talking to himself, but says Eric
Speaker 4: seems to be in the same boat. And he gestures
Speaker 4: to the crowd look at him, smiling, laughing, having a
Speaker 4: good time. I hate them, Eric wonders who. Louie nods
Speaker 4: to the swarm them the popular. Eric scoffs, I'm popular,
Speaker 4: and the audience laughs, yeah, of course. Eric kindly offers
Speaker 4: Louie to come sit at his table, and Louie hardly
Speaker 4: considers it.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: In return, Louis suggests that Eric sits with him. Eric
Speaker 4: quickly responds, nah, they agree, Well there it is. Then
Speaker 4: a voice over the PA one, Matt Kirkwood.
Speaker 2: Was it all I would recognize Kirkwood. That's good, right.
Speaker 4: A voice over the PA says, the Penbrook Harvest Mixer
Speaker 4: is about to start on the second floor, and remember
Speaker 4: only those with invitations may attend. Eric had begun to
Speaker 4: pack up his things and then slowly sits back down
Speaker 4: when he hears about the invites. Eric looks over at
Speaker 4: Louis looks like, it's just you and me. Huh. Louie
Speaker 4: jumps up, pulling an invitation out of his pocket. Now
Speaker 4: it's just you and he leaves. It's a great opening scene,
Speaker 4: really funny. Both of you guys are really great.
Speaker 2: I had high hopes at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were excited. Then we're back at the apartment.
Speaker 4: Rachel and Jack are in the kitchen when Eric enthusiastically
Speaker 4: joins them. He looks directly into the camera, grabs Jack's
Speaker 4: coffee mug, and performatively asks, is that one of those
Speaker 4: delicious cups of coffee from Brew Lagoon conveniently located in
Speaker 4: the peenburg?
Speaker 6: Is this just a choice?
Speaker 5: Because I had no idea where this episode was going,
Speaker 5: I was like, that's kind of a funny, like, is
Speaker 5: Will just doing this as a choice to just all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, I'm just breaking forth.
Speaker 6: That's actually kind of genius if we just went that
Speaker 6: that way.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, this was the first time I started questioning.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait, is he doing why would he
Speaker 4: do a commercial? Why is he doing a commercial for
Speaker 4: brew Lagoon? Yeah, so then this is the thing that
Speaker 4: started me with like, oh, he's doing this because he
Speaker 4: thinks this is going to make him popular. And so
Speaker 4: again what I'm trying to figure out, why is this
Speaker 4: his idea? And then I go, Okay, it's just literally
Speaker 4: it's just because Truman Show had come out this year
Speaker 4: and we we're just gonna do It's there really isn't
Speaker 4: any like true Eric motivating factor.
Speaker 3: It's just let's put Eric. Eric gets this idea.
Speaker 2: And he's starting with a commercial.
Speaker 1: And as I mean, as you guys know from reading
Speaker 1: our reviews, what people normally love and makes you popular
Speaker 1: as ads, Yes.
Speaker 4: They love ads. The more ads you have, the higher
Speaker 4: they rate your show.
Speaker 3: Correct, you know.
Speaker 1: That's why we started with the BRU Lagoon ad by
Speaker 1: the world now sponsored by brew Lagoon Lagoon when your
Speaker 1: lagoon in the morning, every morning.
Speaker 4: Two cups of BW Lagoon, sometimes one right before bed,
Speaker 4: just because I can't get an out of your day.
Speaker 3: Is the content free?
Speaker 4: We don't care. We still don't want commercial too.
Speaker 2: Many at the button three times.
Speaker 3: Sometimes four sometimes for star one star one star.
Speaker 4: Jack wonders why he's talking like that, and Eric Joviali responds,
Speaker 4: I'm not confused. Jack notices that Rachel is scraping her
Speaker 4: leftovers into the trash and he wonders why she isn't
Speaker 4: scraping it into the garbage disposal. Rachel coldly responds, I'd
Speaker 4: just rather do it this way, okay, and then she
Speaker 4: quickly storms off.
Speaker 1: Now that used to be because in the Thanksgiving episode
Speaker 1: that was where the oven was, because remember we pull
Speaker 1: out the ry.
Speaker 2: So that they just had some construction done.
Speaker 4: Art above the stove gone, it's gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no I don't know when it last food, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we had construction obviously done on the in his apartment
Speaker 1: because it was like, you know what, we really like this,
Speaker 1: this ovens in the wrong place.
Speaker 4: You know what, now that you've a woman living with you,
Speaker 4: you can't She had to make she had to put
Speaker 4: a feminine touch on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's garbage disposal, really.
Speaker 4: Is for sure, and getting rid of art and getting
Speaker 4: rid of exactly very famid. Jack follows her while Eric
Speaker 4: watches it all go down with a smile on his face.
Speaker 4: He excitedly announces, have a good morning, and in case
Speaker 4: I don't see you, good evening, good afternoon, and good night,
Speaker 4: which is a catchphrase from the nineteen ninety eight Jim
Speaker 4: Carrey movie The Truman Show.
Speaker 6: Oh, so that line is a direct Truman Show reference.
Speaker 1: But with one of them switched, because I think it's
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good evening, and good night in the Truman Show,
Speaker 1: and so we baically couldn't say that, so we say
Speaker 1: good evening, good afternoon, and night. Switch it up obviously
Speaker 1: because we can't say exactly the same way, which doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense, but it doesn't who I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: Truman Show and there's water coming from the ceiling, so I.
Speaker 4: Know, I just I can't believe how early in life
Speaker 4: Eric was on streaming his life, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the first is this pre or post what's
Speaker 1: it called ed TV, the one with at the same time,
Speaker 1: which was kind of like the first one about streaming
Speaker 1: your life places, and I mean, it was all.
Speaker 6: This anxiety about reality TV.
Speaker 2: You know, what does it mean?
Speaker 6: Is this entertainment? And are we exploiting people?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: Everyone's just like, that's just that's just every human everybody
Speaker 6: is their own reality TV show.
Speaker 2: Yep, We're all just ourselves.
Speaker 4: So we're back in the student union. Louie and a
Speaker 4: group of excited college boys are gathered around the TV,
Speaker 4: cheering at the screen. Jack walks by and wonders what's
Speaker 4: all the excitement. Louie can't wait to tell him eleven am,
Speaker 4: she just got back from the gym. A little sweaty,
Speaker 4: very sexy drives me crazy, dude.
Speaker 6: I love everybody sitting with the TV off to the.
Speaker 4: Side, as opposed to putting it in front of them,
Speaker 4: which you can't do.
Speaker 6: The couch even to face that way. It's just such
Speaker 6: an awkward position.
Speaker 1: How about the fact though, that they're they're watching this
Speaker 1: show as as a group.
Speaker 2: Matt was just on the television screen, right you think?
Speaker 1: He walks again and he's like, what are they doing? Like, Oh,
Speaker 1: there's this awesome show. Weren't you just watching?
Speaker 3: You were just watching seconds ago? So that I watched
Speaker 3: him in the brew Lagoon commercials, they.
Speaker 6: Can't take of.
Speaker 1: How do they not recognize the guy that was literally
Speaker 1: just on screen fifteen seconds ago?
Speaker 4: So so Jack has no idea what he's referring to.
Speaker 4: So Louis simply points to the TV her and there
Speaker 4: they are Eric and Rachel right there on the screen.
Speaker 4: Eric is playing with sock puppets and Rachel is holding
Speaker 4: laundry in the background, wearing only a towel. I guess
Speaker 4: she's looking for her clothes she's gonna wear that day.
Speaker 2: She got to go in the in the showers exactly.
Speaker 4: Louie points out the girl behind the unpopular guy doing
Speaker 4: the puppet show. Jack's jaw is on the floor. What
Speaker 4: is going on? And then we're in a new set
Speaker 4: at a brunch and I for a second when the
Speaker 4: scene started, I felt like I did at the beginning
Speaker 4: of season six with all of these storylines with the
Speaker 4: three of them in the apartment, I was like, did
Speaker 4: I mit we.
Speaker 3: Are they on vacation?
Speaker 4: Did I miss this?
Speaker 1: Is it a be?
Speaker 3: Where are we? And why?
Speaker 4: Like it started on Phoenie, so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: Phoenie's there, but where they're.
Speaker 3: In a hotel? I had no idea what was going on.
Speaker 5: The only news set that really works in my mind
Speaker 5: is the student union, like everything else that's been introduced.
Speaker 5: Actually the classroom felt somewhat comfortable this time, yeah, but
Speaker 5: like otherwise, it's just every time, like what where are we?
Speaker 6: I know what hallway is this?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 6: Where are the dorms?
Speaker 3: The whose room?
Speaker 6: It's just I don't know if something's off, and I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's just that I don't actually remember filming in
Speaker 5: them because walking do.
Speaker 2: You not remember this? Do you not remember this at all?
Speaker 2: Like the sets, the scene and none of you know?
Speaker 6: What's funny?
Speaker 5: Some lines came back to me, like the stuff where
Speaker 5: Ben and I were like mocking each like doing in
Speaker 5: the kitchen, what's bad Yeah, and like that, like my
Speaker 5: brain started going like, oh yes, like I remember this,
Speaker 5: Like I have an echo of me and Ben having
Speaker 5: like loving these bits, and you can tell having.
Speaker 6: So much fun and this is so much fun.
Speaker 5: You know this is by this time Ben and I
Speaker 5: just have mind meld, you know, actor mind beld, and
Speaker 5: so I could feel that coming back. But no, I
Speaker 5: couldn't have told you why we were doing that. I
Speaker 5: just knew, like if you had played that scene for me,
Speaker 5: I'd be.
Speaker 6: Like, oh, yeah, yeah that one.
Speaker 5: But no, Foenie grades what none of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so funny. I only remember the soup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember some of the stuff I remember, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get to it. I remember the two women clutching
Speaker 1: the pillows.
Speaker 3: Oh I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. It's a Truman Show trope, so that
Speaker 1: I remembered it is really just it was. It's a
Speaker 1: straight take from that, I mean, down to what I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah And.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, Harris.
Speaker 2: Ed As that character would have been so fun. Is
Speaker 2: so much different.
Speaker 3: If I just keep naming Ed's will eventually get there. No,
Speaker 3: I don't want to move on.
Speaker 2: Name another one. You've done two now third ed.
Speaker 4: Edward Edward House, I worked with him. I already said
Speaker 4: ed TV.
Speaker 2: So the word ed has been said more times exactly.
Speaker 4: Okay. So Phoene sits at a table while a chef
Speaker 4: makes Sean an omelet. Sean is concerned the chef didn't
Speaker 4: actually put three cheeses in there? Where's the gouda? The
Speaker 4: chef fixes the issue, but doesn't say anything because that
Speaker 4: would trigger sag fees.
Speaker 6: A scene with him time.
Speaker 2: But Sean's back.
Speaker 4: So good.
Speaker 5: You can my whole body language is differ. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: like I'm just inhabiting the character again.
Speaker 1: Feels the same, and you're having fun and you can
Speaker 1: tell you're having fun of it, and I really hope.
Speaker 5: I mean, so it's like all this pressure when we're
Speaker 5: the A story, you know, like I just want us
Speaker 5: to be the Bee story more because this is so
Speaker 5: much nicer.
Speaker 2: Min man, that's mine.
Speaker 3: Sean is satisfied. There's a lot writing on these eggs.
Speaker 4: Then Corey runs up with a waffle he made for Feeni,
Speaker 4: complete with blueberry eyes and a whip cream smile. Sean
Speaker 4: thinks their plan is going to work, but Corey is
Speaker 4: concerned it's a Tad morally wrong. Sean brushes him off.
Speaker 4: All we're doing is treating the man who has been
Speaker 4: a driving force in our lives to a brunch, and
Speaker 4: if he happens to go a little easier on us
Speaker 4: in class because of it, so be it. The guys
Speaker 4: take their seats with Phoenie and serve him the waffle
Speaker 4: and omelet they so graciously retrieved from the bet for
Speaker 4: the best educator in America. Sean even counts the three cheeses,
Speaker 4: and Foene grins, I do like Gouda, I like that
Speaker 4: you go. I knew that, I knew that, I knew that.
Speaker 4: Phoene assures them brunch really wasn't necessary. Sean insists, it's
Speaker 4: our way of saying things. On cue. A finally dressed
Speaker 4: waiter brings walks by with another bottle of champagne, and
Speaker 4: Corey happily pours it into Phoene's glass. Sean admits they're
Speaker 4: just happy to sneak away from their studies for a moment.
Speaker 4: Phoene asks been burning the midnight oil? Have you? Corey
Speaker 4: turns on the drama They are killing us. I mean
Speaker 4: that Professor Williams is a sadist. Phoenix why why why.
Speaker 2: Make it Professor Williams.
Speaker 1: This is now the second and third time they've named
Speaker 1: a character after another character that was written on Jonathan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a guy was Jonathan. Now we have
Speaker 4: the Professor Williams.
Speaker 2: Like why we can't we three names in the whole history?
Speaker 2: Like why is that necessary?
Speaker 6: Keeping track?
Speaker 5: I mean, would anybody I means on the show like.
Speaker 6: Three years out twenty two episodes, which means how many
Speaker 6: pitches and names and scripts that make one through just
Speaker 6: to get to where they land?
Speaker 2: Had Professor Williams on the show already and we wrote
Speaker 2: him off.
Speaker 5: This is like shows now have like bibles and like,
Speaker 5: you know, the can just pictures.
Speaker 3: On the wall of characters you've had.
Speaker 6: But back then anybody was keeping track.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, it's just the easiest just sitting
Speaker 1: there going why why why?
Speaker 2: This is the second time they've done this now why? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I didn't get it.
Speaker 4: Phoene explains there's always one tough class, but the boys
Speaker 4: wish that was the case. They're all ridiculous. Shawn instantly
Speaker 4: offers phoenea scone. Phoene says, well, no, he has too
Speaker 4: much food already. But Sean disagrees. He calls Phoene ripped
Speaker 4: and cut. Cory then offers sim some jelly.
Speaker 3: Phoene cuts to the chase, what's the deal?
Speaker 4: They play dumb, and Corey explains, your words hurt like fists.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 6: Hurt like fists.
Speaker 4: They're merely taking him out as a thank you. Sean adds,
Speaker 4: and we know that you've got a vested interest in
Speaker 4: us and want to see us do well, and Phoene agrees.
Speaker 4: Corey continues, we want you to know we'll try very,
Speaker 4: very hard in your class. Sean lay's on the pressure,
Speaker 4: even though we've got so much work in all our
Speaker 4: other classes. They're killing us. We can't even breathe. But
Speaker 4: Corey assures him we do not want any special treatment
Speaker 4: or consideration, and Sean continues on, and we don't want
Speaker 4: you to think of this brunch as a bribe. Phoene
Speaker 4: is unamused. You want an extension on your midterm papers?
Speaker 4: Sean responds, without a second thought, we'll give you one
Speaker 4: hundred bucks cash right now.
Speaker 3: Phoene says they didn't have to go through all this.
Speaker 4: If they need help, they can just ask. Corey pleads,
Speaker 4: we just need a few days Sean offers four. Phoene
Speaker 4: counters with three, so Sean negotiates against himself two too.
Speaker 6: Dumb, Sean, I love it.
Speaker 4: So cool.
Speaker 5: I love this because there's a they didn't quite lean
Speaker 5: into this enough for in my opinion. But there's a
Speaker 5: little bit of the Member of the Pop Quiz episode
Speaker 5: where it's like we are like, oh, we can get
Speaker 5: the answers and then study, and then they're like, that's
Speaker 5: called school.
Speaker 6: There's a little bit of like, this is what college
Speaker 6: is about. You just communicate with your teacher and.
Speaker 5: You probably like they want you to learn, you know,
Speaker 5: like they're not trying to have a gotcha moment. They're
Speaker 5: trying to for you to If you need a couple
Speaker 5: extra days, if you plan ahead, that's easy, you know
Speaker 5: exactly let them know. And I kind of love that.
Speaker 5: You know, they're like thinking they got one over on fee.
Speaker 5: But you know there's another answer, which is just like.
Speaker 6: Anybody can do this.
Speaker 4: I just talked to me.
Speaker 5: You know, you're a college student. Now, they're not legally
Speaker 5: required to be here.
Speaker 4: Correct. Correct. Also, you probably have a job and other response.
Speaker 4: You may have children, for all I know, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Phoene folds it too and pretends to be bummed about it.
Speaker 4: Sean boasts, Now that's how you make a deal. Corey
Speaker 4: isn't bothered. He offers phoene more bubbly, and then we're
Speaker 4: back in the student union. Eric is back on the TV,
Speaker 4: but this time he's showing the viewers how.
Speaker 3: To eat soup.
Speaker 4: If it's hot, you can blow on it. The college
Speaker 4: viewers are bored out of their minds, waiting for something
Speaker 4: good to happen. Back at the apartment, the door swings open.
Speaker 4: It's Jack, he shouts, forcing Eric to drop the bowl
Speaker 4: of soup on his lap.
Speaker 3: You make a real funny little rat face.
Speaker 2: And like a milling sound.
Speaker 5: I wish the tag for this episode was just the
Speaker 5: outtakes of Eric like trying like what what?
Speaker 6: What the show that Eric was trying to do with
Speaker 6: a sock puppet.
Speaker 4: Honestly, every episode should end with just the outtakes of
Speaker 4: what Will did that week?
Speaker 3: It just every week should be.
Speaker 5: That, in my I mean the fictional show that Eric
Speaker 5: was trying to entertain, like before he realized this what
Speaker 5: he was doing?
Speaker 6: You about soup?
Speaker 4: Like what else?
Speaker 5: Would They could have come up with a hundred things
Speaker 5: and just let Will do it, it would have been hysterical.
Speaker 1: I went back and I watched The Puppet Show a
Speaker 1: few times where I was like, what am I trying
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: Because they're kissing. They're kissing his face at the end,
Speaker 2: and I was like, what was I What was I trying?
Speaker 1: I watch a whole hour when I was planning, and
Speaker 1: when you lift your.
Speaker 4: Arms up, I don't know. Yeah, I was like, what,
Speaker 4: Jack can't believe this? How long have you been filming us?
Speaker 4: Eric's voice turns obsessed. It's not film, it's live, it's spontaneous,
Speaker 4: it's unrehearsed. Absolutely anything can happen, even this. He pulls
Speaker 4: Jack and close and forces him to dance. Back at
Speaker 4: the student union, Louis tells his friends told you they
Speaker 4: were gay, and one of the guy's hands him money
Speaker 4: and defeat. Back at the apartment, Jack asks, why would
Speaker 4: you do this? Eric turns dramatically vulnerable. You want to know.
Speaker 4: I was afraid. Okay, I'm afraid to just be another
Speaker 4: face in the college crowd. I just want people to
Speaker 4: know me. Maybe if they do, then they'd come over
Speaker 4: and sit with me in the morning and just drink
Speaker 4: a cup of coffee. And here's he's explaining this, but
Speaker 4: that wasn't he It wasn't bothering him. And he even
Speaker 4: said when he said, you're sitting here alone and he's like,
Speaker 4: I'm popular.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But then he's also playing it as if he's
Speaker 5: like heightening the drama to like what.
Speaker 1: Then, but staring at Jack, I should have turned towards
Speaker 1: the camera and like, you know what the problem, Like
Speaker 1: I should have gone.
Speaker 5: You were kind of I don't think they intended it,
Speaker 5: and I think you were because I think the motivation
Speaker 5: is so bad, like what Danielle's pointed out, like it
Speaker 5: doesn't really make sense that you, just as an actor,
Speaker 5: decided to heighten the melodrama. You make a big part
Speaker 5: of the character, right, and so I feel like it
Speaker 5: was not a directorial or writing choice that you were
Speaker 5: just like this, I'm not going to actually have to
Speaker 5: say this stupid.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe like, but I'm just sitting there
Speaker 1: going like why is he playing this to Jack? Turned
Speaker 1: towards the camera, milk it, Like that's the whole point
Speaker 1: is you want you you think you're trying to get.
Speaker 1: So maybe his motivation is if my television show about
Speaker 1: myself becomes popular, I'll become popular, so they're gonna want
Speaker 1: the high drama and I'm going to turn but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was then played to Jack.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of in between, right, Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: maybe that was my problem with this a story. Was
Speaker 1: that a lot of it, like at the end, which
Speaker 1: we'll get to where she's about to crawl over the
Speaker 1: thing and I'm like losing it and I've created or shit, it.
Speaker 2: Was in between? Is it melodrama? Did I mean it?
Speaker 2: And so maybe I didn't commit to either one, and
Speaker 2: that's what's throwing me.
Speaker 6: I don't know who was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very odd to me.
Speaker 4: Eric turns to the camera. He did this to be popular.
Speaker 4: Louis is disgusted. How does he have a show and
Speaker 4: I don't. Then Rachel appears, still in a towel. The
Speaker 4: hornball dudes in the student union cheer uncontrollably.
Speaker 1: There she is.
Speaker 4: Rachel wants to know what's going on. Jack tells her, congratulations,
Speaker 4: you're on TV. He turns on the television and there
Speaker 4: she is. Apparently it's on every TV set just the
Speaker 4: minute you turn it on. Is that so because you're
Speaker 4: not on the college campus, it's just like in everyone
Speaker 4: everyone in the near vicinity has this channel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, channel channels, so like small telepublic, they would air it,
Speaker 5: you know, in the in the air, literally airing waves
Speaker 5: of television.
Speaker 3: So apparently it's on every TV channel.
Speaker 4: She is stunned. Who else is watching? Jack tells her
Speaker 4: it's a big crowd at the student union. Rachel looks furious,
Speaker 4: but Louie is eating it up. It's almost worth the
Speaker 4: twenty three hours of crap just to get to this.
Speaker 4: The dude's cheer and approval back on the TV. Rachel
Speaker 4: sprints to her room, embarrassed. Eric doesn't get it. Everyone's
Speaker 4: watching because of him. Jack says he knows for a
Speaker 4: fact they're watching her. Eric doesn't get it. Why would
Speaker 4: they watch her? She's not even dressed.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: He instantly gets it, and then we're back in Phoene's classroom.
Speaker 4: Phoene tells the class he would like them to finish
Speaker 4: reading the Canterbury Tales and be prepared to discuss Chaucer's intent.
Speaker 6: I guess this is poetry, yeah, and German poetry is
Speaker 6: what we are so stressed up.
Speaker 4: It's too hard, guys, really sure he loves poetry, loves.
Speaker 1: Poetry exactly what rhymes with extension, so yeah, hey, at
Speaker 1: least they're they're keeping it consistent with what Phoene's teaching.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for the most.
Speaker 4: Part, it's a good point.
Speaker 2: That's something.
Speaker 4: As the students stand to leave, Phoene asks for one
Speaker 4: more minute. He has their midterm papers. Angela prepares, well,
Speaker 4: it's our first real big grades. Ta Panga doesn't understand
Speaker 4: why she'd be nervous. She's a great student and she
Speaker 4: worked really hard on it. To Pega turns to the
Speaker 4: boys and reassures them remember this is only one grade.
Speaker 4: Phoene places Corey in Sean's test face down on their desks.
Speaker 4: The two boys look at each other and decide to
Speaker 4: check at the same time. One, two, three. They flip
Speaker 4: over the papers in unison. Sean squeals, haha, I got
Speaker 4: a bee. Corey beams me too. To Pega's very happy
Speaker 4: for both of them. Then she looks at her own paper,
Speaker 4: adding that Corey's parents will be very proud. What is this?
Speaker 3: Sean points out that it's a bee.
Speaker 4: They all got the same grade. Angela jumps in, I
Speaker 4: got a B plus, but to Pega doesn't care. How
Speaker 4: did I get the same grade as these two schlubs
Speaker 4: the gang leaves. In the middle of Tabanga's breakdown, she's
Speaker 4: very concerned.
Speaker 5: Like, my favorite moment of the entire episode is when
Speaker 5: Ben and I do that little like one two three flip.
Speaker 5: It's so, yeah, you know why, I'm trying to think
Speaker 5: about what it's because it's not a joke. It's just
Speaker 5: it's it's just watching Corey and Sean be friends. And
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, so long since they they're not like
Speaker 5: and you're just watching that they have like their own language,
Speaker 5: their own stuff. And it was like very real, you know,
Speaker 5: like we played it for real, like we're like, okay,
Speaker 5: are you ready, And it was like it wasn't performative friendship.
Speaker 6: It was just you know, which is you know, obviously.
Speaker 5: The point of a show is to perform the friendship
Speaker 5: and whatever. But in that moment, it was just felt
Speaker 5: like a real friendship. And I was just like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6: Seeing like a quiet moment.
Speaker 5: Moment of like Corey and Sean and also Ben and
Speaker 5: Ryder to a certain extent too. It was like it
Speaker 5: was just so relaxed, and I just had this like
Speaker 5: little window of like, oh right, that was that's friendship,
Speaker 5: and that was in my life too, Like there was
Speaker 5: this like casual like confidence and just like we're in
Speaker 5: this together.
Speaker 6: I don't know, it was really you're also but you're.
Speaker 1: Also no longer the relationship because the relationship has become
Speaker 1: Corey Topanga right, and Sean's kind of Sean Angela. And
Speaker 1: then they broke up, so Sean's kind of on an
Speaker 1: island a bit. So it's nice to just it's like
Speaker 1: it's Corey and Shawn again.
Speaker 6: That's what I felt.
Speaker 2: I liked that moment.
Speaker 1: But you guys in the next scene with Alan just
Speaker 1: playing off of each other, I could watch, which is yes.
Speaker 3: That is like, you know, the performative it wasting.
Speaker 6: This was like there's no joke, there's no point to this.
Speaker 6: It's just seeing them living and like I just felt it.
Speaker 6: It was it just.
Speaker 5: Warmed my heart.
Speaker 4: That's so sweet.
Speaker 3: She turns to the student next to her. What did
Speaker 3: you get?
Speaker 4: Sean and Corey thank Feoene for the bees. Phoene retorts,
Speaker 4: don't think me. You did the work, Corey grinns. Believe me,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be just as happy with the next one.
Speaker 4: Phoene asks, are you aware that the next paper was
Speaker 4: due yesterday? They quickly tried their best to come up
Speaker 4: with an excuse. Corey finally lands on, that's what we
Speaker 4: wanted to talk to you about. Remember how you said
Speaker 4: we can always come to you. Well we're here, sewn.
Speaker 4: How about three days. Phoene responds, no days. Sean tries
Speaker 4: again two days, and Phoenie reiterates no days. Corey tries
Speaker 4: to intervene, but Sean shushes him. He's negotiating. Phoenie wants
Speaker 4: to understand this. You just decided that I would give
Speaker 4: you another extension. Corey explains, well, because of our long
Speaker 4: history together. Phoene is unamused. So you just didn't bother
Speaker 4: to do the papers at all. There's a moment of silence,
Speaker 4: and then Corey goes back to an old favorite.
Speaker 3: They're killing us.
Speaker 4: Phoene responds, I see, well, there's no need for you
Speaker 4: to turn in your papers at all. Boys, Sean and
Speaker 4: Corey smirk at this news sounds good. Phoene continues, I
Speaker 4: can give you your grades right now. The boys are
Speaker 4: still smiling even better, but he snaps them back to reality.
Speaker 3: You both get f's.
Speaker 4: The boys can't believe this. That's not fair, Phoene says,
Speaker 4: there's nothing more to discuss. Meanwhile, to Penga shouts Phaine.
Speaker 4: He looks at her wide eyed, huh oh, and he
Speaker 4: runs out of the classroom door to Panga follows close behind.
Speaker 3: Don't you run away from me, you old goat?
Speaker 1: Wow wow great, you just like, oh god, it's the
Speaker 1: only person that Phoenie to be afraid of is to Panga.
Speaker 2: Right, it's just great.
Speaker 4: I do love it. Left behind, the boys are disappointed.
Speaker 4: Sean admits I thought he was our friend. Cory agrees,
Speaker 4: he gave us an extension on the mid term. What's
Speaker 4: the big deal with this one? Sean feels like he's
Speaker 4: two different people. Corey nods, I thought we had a
Speaker 4: special relationship with him. And then on cue, right out
Speaker 4: the window we see Tapanga angrily chasing Phoene down. Phoenie,
Speaker 4: you change this, and then we have a rare return
Speaker 4: to the Matthew's kitchen. Yeah so nice. Phoene is sitting
Speaker 4: with Alan is a pregnant Amy, serving some cookies. Since
Speaker 4: they haven't picked a name for the baby yet, Phoene
Speaker 4: throws out an idea, I myself have always been partial
Speaker 4: to George. Alan wonders, George, George Matthews, we'll throw that
Speaker 4: into the hat. Phoene explains that the Germanic origin of
Speaker 4: his name means watch out, the sheep are coming.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's true.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think it is just a little, you.
Speaker 6: Know, Foie making up a fact.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 3: Is he doing it as a joke.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's joking, right, it's I think
Speaker 2: everybody knows.
Speaker 6: But then the way that it's I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know either.
Speaker 6: I think it joke.
Speaker 4: The name George originates from the Greek word giorgos, meaning
Speaker 4: farmer or earthworker. Okay, okay, all right, all right, so
Speaker 4: that's kind of it's a player coming.
Speaker 6: Sheep is Jason.
Speaker 4: Amy is suddenly now less intrigued, sarcastically saying they all
Speaker 4: think on that. Then Corey and Sean walk in. They
Speaker 4: spot Foenie and asked what he's doing here. Alan asks
Speaker 4: them about the tension. Sean replies, well, why don't you
Speaker 4: ask him? Amy reminds them it's mister Feenie to them,
Speaker 4: but Feenie interjects, this is simple a matter between a
Speaker 4: teacher and his students. But Alan won't stand for it.
Speaker 4: He demands that the boys never use that tone of
Speaker 4: voice with this man. Corey argues, this man in the back,
Speaker 4: Rusty plays it really hard. It's very serious.
Speaker 6: Too much for me, it was I.
Speaker 5: Think the lines could have worked, but they pushed it
Speaker 5: and Rusty. I think maybe Rusty was actually in a
Speaker 5: bad movie.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe he was upset.
Speaker 6: Because Ben and I had lost a couple of takes already, like.
Speaker 5: By maybe I don't know, but I was like, this
Speaker 5: is a weird choice and it's a little too too much.
Speaker 3: I agree, it was a little.
Speaker 4: It was a little like, oh, half half the room
Speaker 4: is in a same one and the other half of
Speaker 4: the room is and feeling yea very upset.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so phoene is sorry they feel that way.
Speaker 4: He walks toward the door, telling Amy, this coffee is
Speaker 4: so good. I'm taking it with me now. With Feeney gone,
Speaker 4: Amy narrows her eyes at the boys. This better be
Speaker 4: real good. Alan doesn't even want to hear about it.
Speaker 4: They were incredibly rude. He's gonna punish them right now.
Speaker 4: Corey reminds his dad, you can't punish us. We're in college.
Speaker 4: Alan suggests, how about I hit you so hard you're
Speaker 4: back in high school.
Speaker 1: Wow, it seems like an escalation that didn't yet it necessarily, but.
Speaker 5: Also it starts there like the second and I'm gonna.
Speaker 6: We're not.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Corey and Sean say Pheenie double crossed them, and Corey
Speaker 4: tells his version of the story. We came to him
Speaker 4: as friends and told him how swamped we were with
Speaker 4: our other classes. Sean picks up the story, explaining that
Speaker 4: Pheenie let them slide on the midterm because he understood.
Speaker 4: Then Corey says, he kills us on the next paper.
Speaker 4: Amy wonders, and what was your great? Corey shouts, we
Speaker 4: didn't even turn it in. He thinks that's an f
Speaker 4: He didn't even let them explain. Alan repeats their problem
Speaker 4: back to them, just to make sure he's understanding this correctly.
Speaker 3: They believed Feenie would let them.
Speaker 4: Slide on every paper for the rest of their academic
Speaker 4: lives because he gave them one extension. Sean nods yeah.
Speaker 4: Cory asks, where's bad? Amy explains, it's bad that mister
Speaker 4: Feeney couldn't give you guys a break without you taking
Speaker 4: advantage of him. Alan now stands face to face with
Speaker 4: his son. You may be in college, but you still
Speaker 4: have a lot of growing up to do. He glares
Speaker 4: at Sean and the boy. I knows, how does this
Speaker 4: result they ever gonna be able to be in the
Speaker 4: same room.
Speaker 3: He spits on him, kicks his face and walks out.
Speaker 3: Walk You're no son of mine. I changing the will.
Speaker 4: Then we're back at the apartment opera music is blasting,
Speaker 4: Rachel thing.
Speaker 5: I just love that Shawn just hops up on the
Speaker 5: counter in that scene, and like the familiarity, Like.
Speaker 6: I'd love to go back and see how that came about,
Speaker 6: like if that was Kendall or me.
Speaker 2: It just happened.
Speaker 5: But it like breaks up the scene a little bit too,
Speaker 5: like the way you know, Cory and I are standing
Speaker 5: neck because otherwise, if we were just in a line
Speaker 5: doing that line, yeah, the imitation thing, it wouldn't be
Speaker 5: as funny.
Speaker 3: Oh, we know how much you don't like people in
Speaker 3: the line, talking things.
Speaker 1: Out, dancing, acting anything with lines, riders not a fan.
Speaker 4: People in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: It's it's dark, you know what I know.
Speaker 5: I know so much of your job is this is
Speaker 5: breaking up. Now we figure out not just everybody standing there.
Speaker 4: You'll sit on the let, you'll sit on the arm
Speaker 4: of the couch. You stand, you'll be behind the couch.
Speaker 4: You're going to be over here facing this direction, but
Speaker 4: still open for camera for one line.
Speaker 1: I prefer one line and no furniture, just everyone in
Speaker 1: a blank room and one line talking.
Speaker 2: That's how I like.
Speaker 1: By the way, what do you think the chances are,
Speaker 1: just for my own edification, that they still own the
Speaker 1: Wilderness Store?
Speaker 2: I mean, is that still what they do?
Speaker 3: Is still their job?
Speaker 4: Who knows?
Speaker 6: I mean the.
Speaker 1: Baby, Yeah, that's they better be getting some serious tent
Speaker 1: money because they got a lot of lot of kids
Speaker 1: to take care of.
Speaker 5: It's just crazy to think how much effort was expended
Speaker 5: on you to develop it, to tell a whole story,
Speaker 5: to make it about the relationship, getting the store, and
Speaker 5: that it's like he's building that huge set.
Speaker 4: Jesus, it's crazy.
Speaker 6: To just drop it, like to just gonference it. It's
Speaker 6: so interesting.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they still have it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Maybe it's just, uh, they've got other
Speaker 4: people running it. It's just making passive income.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: It's they franchised. It's huge.
Speaker 1: It's bass. I was going to say they changed it
Speaker 1: to they sold it to bass pro shops. They're multimillionaires
Speaker 1: at this point. It's just part of the story we
Speaker 1: didn't know about.
Speaker 4: So opera music is blasting. Rachel rushes to turn off
Speaker 4: the stereo in the kitchen, but when she powers it down,
Speaker 4: the music only pauses for a moment before it starts
Speaker 4: up again. She turns it off again and it plays again.
Speaker 4: The cycle continues on and on, and we see Eric
Speaker 4: sitting in a director's chair, dressed exactly like Ed Harris
Speaker 4: in the Truman Show. He's the one who rigged the
Speaker 4: stereo to do this trick, just like O'Neill.
Speaker 2: Ed Norton.
Speaker 4: There you go, director Edwards hands. Director Eric is sitting
Speaker 4: in the student union, flanked by a ton of male
Speaker 4: students watching on and off. Louis as I.
Speaker 5: Missed all the Truman Show references before, so this is
Speaker 5: what I was like, Oh, it's a Truman show, really, yes,
Speaker 5: well up until now it's a hidden camera thing.
Speaker 6: No one's manipulating it right, right, But.
Speaker 4: Even personally, you didn't remember just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 4: when Will was like, well, we've got that Truman show
Speaker 4: up coming.
Speaker 6: Up, we didn't. You got to listen to him, Will
Speaker 6: when did you get here?
Speaker 4: Force? I tried to tune him out out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah. I figured you knew it was a parody.
Speaker 1: Show.
Speaker 6: It's a good movie, I gotta but yeah, so no,
Speaker 6: I didn't get the whatever the catchphrase that you said, right,
Speaker 6: so it's.
Speaker 3: A seventeen minute like yeah, I was like, oh, that's
Speaker 3: what this is.
Speaker 1: They also noticed what they did very cleverly, is that
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by guys and one woman who's they right
Speaker 1: front and center, like right next to me. And actually
Speaker 1: she does a great job because every time anything kind
Speaker 1: of sexist is said, it's her face is like disgusted.
Speaker 1: It's great, go back to Really, her performance throughout the
Speaker 1: scene is very it's great. I like that.
Speaker 4: So Louie asks Eric, you got a button on that
Speaker 4: thing that gets her naked so she might give a
Speaker 4: nice face.
Speaker 2: She's like like, yeah, it's great.
Speaker 4: The men are excited at the prospect, but Eric yells
Speaker 4: at them to stop. Don't talk about my Rachel that way,
Speaker 4: all right. I created her in my own image. She's
Speaker 4: like my daughter. Watch what I do to her now.
Speaker 4: Then he clicks a button and the TV screen shuts off.
Speaker 4: The men all yell and protest. Eric tells them to
Speaker 4: calm down. This is the first time he's ever controlled
Speaker 4: a human being. He'll get her back. He presses a
Speaker 4: button and the TV is back on, but Rachel is
Speaker 4: nowhere to be found. Eric scans the room and announces
Speaker 4: in a godlike tone, come into the living room, Rachel.
Speaker 4: Rachel emerges from her bedroom and Eric continues come downstairs, Rachel.
Speaker 4: She heils out Eric, where are you? He mysteriously replies
Speaker 4: I'm over here, and she looks around the room. Puzzled.
Speaker 4: She asks where he is, and he answers in the
Speaker 4: student union. Even the guys know that was a mistake.
Speaker 4: He quickly corrects himself, I'm in your mind. I'm in
Speaker 4: the student union, of your mind. Rachel isn't pleased. She
Speaker 4: turns on the TV to find herself on screen again.
Speaker 4: She reminds Eric he said he was going to stop this.
Speaker 4: She calls out for Jack, but Eric tries to convince
Speaker 4: her this isn't about me anymore, Rachel. This is about you.
Speaker 4: You're what the people want. The guys all agree creepily.
Speaker 4: Eric gives Louis the chance to speak to her through
Speaker 4: the headset. Rachel, it's me, Louie. I love you.
Speaker 2: He's so good.
Speaker 4: Rachel inches closer to the camera with a smile. She
Speaker 4: bends down and asks Louie to tell her about himself.
Speaker 4: In response, Louie falls backwards off the couch. Jack walks
Speaker 4: out to find Rachel talking to the TV. Is Eric
Speaker 4: still doing this? Rachel says yes, he's in the student
Speaker 4: union controlling everything. Then thunder sounds in the apartment, catching
Speaker 4: Rachel off guard. Jack calms her it's nothing, just a
Speaker 4: simple sound effect coming out of the stereo. But then
Speaker 4: rain pours down from the ceiling directly onto only Jack.
Speaker 4: He admits, that's impressive.
Speaker 2: That's impressive.
Speaker 4: He tries to step aside, but the small flow of
Speaker 4: rain follows him again, just like the Truman Show.
Speaker 6: I would love to see how they did this. Do
Speaker 6: you remember this at all?
Speaker 1: Now? You can see it kind of wobble a bit
Speaker 1: as it some kind of like yeah, yeah, cranky thing
Speaker 1: that they're using to follow.
Speaker 6: Somebody like literally on the catwalk or no, because it's
Speaker 6: now much higher.
Speaker 4: It seems like it's probably somebody on a tall structure
Speaker 4: on the other side of the door, and they've got
Speaker 4: the know they've got something from the catwalk, the rain
Speaker 4: machine from the catwalk, and then there's just a up
Speaker 4: something they're pulling. And it's because they it only has
Speaker 4: to move, you know, to ten inches feet Now, I
Speaker 4: don't even think that far. I think maybe a foot.
Speaker 4: He just takes one step.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's true.
Speaker 4: You know, it takes one step to his left or
Speaker 4: his right. So I think they just then because you
Speaker 4: do see it. It doesn't ever, it's not a straight line.
Speaker 4: It like is on a little bit of an angle.
Speaker 2: Does so it's bobbles.
Speaker 5: And if they have another one over by the sink
Speaker 5: or do you think they like reset and moved the same?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Good question.
Speaker 6: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I wish I remembered. I don't remember how they did it.
Speaker 2: Kendall would know, yeah, remember that.
Speaker 5: I would just love to see a wide photograph of
Speaker 5: like that whole set up setup, with you know, Matt
Speaker 5: in the frame, Like.
Speaker 6: How did they you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, slightly breaking, Jack wonders, where have I seen this before?
Speaker 4: Rachel says they need to get out of there, and
Speaker 4: she runs to the front door. Where have I seen
Speaker 4: this before? Is he also just recognizing that it's.
Speaker 2: Truman Show, that it's the Truman Show.
Speaker 4: Yep, be sure, okay, okay. But when she opens it,
Speaker 4: there's a brick wall blocking the entrance. She screams, but
Speaker 4: Jack gives credit where credit's due. Wow, he's really thought
Speaker 4: this one out.
Speaker 6: I think I should have watched this again. But I
Speaker 6: think the brick wall wobbles.
Speaker 1: Yes, I.
Speaker 6: Don't know, I should look back. It's a scrim I no,
Speaker 6: I just think.
Speaker 5: It's you know, it's like a plywood painted all. But
Speaker 5: there was something about the way she opened the door
Speaker 5: was like, that doesn't seems solid.
Speaker 1: I like how Jack is almost proud of Eric at
Speaker 1: that moment. He really though through, like really th this
Speaker 1: one out. He's got to kill us, But god, he
Speaker 1: really thought it out, Like it's so funny.
Speaker 4: Rachel suggests the balcony, but Jack reminds her it's three
Speaker 4: stories down. They can't do that. Back in the student union,
Speaker 4: Eric is still watching their every move. He lets the
Speaker 4: crowd in on a little secret. The only way out
Speaker 4: is through the window over the sink and down the
Speaker 4: fire escape. Back at the apartment, Jack informs Rachel the
Speaker 4: only way out is through the window over the sink
Speaker 4: and down the fire escape. Louis sees them escaping. Oh no,
Speaker 4: we'll lose her before shower time. Eric calmly states she's
Speaker 4: not going anywhere. We see Jack climb out the window first,
Speaker 4: and then he offers Rachel a hand. Director Eric warns
Speaker 4: watch this, then presses a button, causing Rachel to shriek
Speaker 4: with terror. He's triggered the garbage disposal and she's terrified.
Speaker 4: Jack doesn't understand what is she scared of. Eric whispers
Speaker 4: for Rachel to tell him, and so Rachel admits bunny baby,
Speaker 4: and that triggers a flashback.
Speaker 6: This is like, this is when I was like this
Speaker 6: episode totally great.
Speaker 2: Like I was just like I love this moment.
Speaker 5: Go to a.
Speaker 6: Flashback of like baby bunny dying.
Speaker 5: Like once I saw what was happening, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's great, Yes, just go there, go crazy.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh it is so funny.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: We see Rachel as a little girl walking up to
Speaker 4: the same holding a stuffed animal bunny. She asks her
Speaker 4: bunny baby if he wants to play down the bunny hole.
Speaker 4: It's where her mom puts all the carrots. She sticks
Speaker 4: the poor stuffed animal into the garbage disposal announces, let
Speaker 4: me put the light on so you can see. Then
Speaker 4: accidentally she turns on the garbage disposal. Bunny baby spirals
Speaker 4: into the death trap. Rachel screams as little fuzzy pieces
Speaker 4: fly into the air.
Speaker 5: The horror.
Speaker 4: The flashback ends and Rachel is shaking inside of her apartment.
Speaker 4: Jack crawls back in and pulls her into his arms
Speaker 4: for comfort. The student used to watch his on.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because he's taller than her.
Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, so he obviously whatever stool they
Speaker 1: use to climb over the thing, He's like, stand.
Speaker 4: On this, understand right here?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I like this here. The student union watches on and awe,
Speaker 4: Louie can't control his emotions. You heartless, unfeeling control freak.
Speaker 4: It's no wonder you're not popular. Everyone boos Eric. Eric
Speaker 4: commands them to be quiet. This is great TV. This
Speaker 4: is human drama unfolding before you. He gets closer to
Speaker 4: the TV as Rachel and Eric at more intense. Jack
Speaker 4: tells her it's the only way. He climbs out of
Speaker 4: the window and once again offers her his hand. She
Speaker 4: shakes her head, she can't do it. Back at the union,
Speaker 4: Eric presses a button that starts her own individual raincloud,
Speaker 4: completely drenching her. She turns toward the camera with vengeance.
Speaker 4: I will kill him. Jack reminds her that she has
Speaker 4: to go through the window. Rachel, now knowing it's the
Speaker 4: only way, walks toward the sink. Just then Eric is
Speaker 4: hit with the reality of what he's done. What's the
Speaker 4: point of being popular when I just hurt the only
Speaker 4: two people who even tolerated me. I am a monster,
Speaker 4: He speaks into his headset Rachel, come on, you can
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta go over, Rachel.
Speaker 4: The crowd of students join in on the encouragement. Eric
Speaker 4: tells her do it for bunny Baby. She looks to
Speaker 4: the camera bunny Baby. Then she grabs Jack's hand and
Speaker 4: steps on the sink. She's facing her fears. They leave
Speaker 4: out the window and the entire student union are reps
Speaker 4: in cheer. Rachel hugs Jack on the fire escape, then
Speaker 4: pokes her head back through the window and bows to
Speaker 4: her audience. Eric chef kisses his own work. Eric turns
Speaker 4: off the TV and faces the crowd. He dramatically wipes
Speaker 4: a tear from his cheek, goes right into his academy
Speaker 4: awards mode. You have just witnessed the triumph of the
Speaker 4: human spirit, and I'd like to take this opportunity to
Speaker 4: thank everybody who helped me with this. I'd like to
Speaker 4: think the guys in the audio visual department, the wonderful
Speaker 4: people at Milt's Masonry who built that brick wall, my
Speaker 4: roommate Jack, and the heroine of our saga and on cue.
Speaker 4: Rachel enters the student union. Eric is shocked. You got
Speaker 4: here incredibly fast. She responds, well, I was incredibly motivated.
Speaker 4: Eric says he is so proud of her, and then
Speaker 4: Louis speaks up, geez, you're a freaking amazon. Rachel commands
Speaker 4: him out of her way, and she stomps up to Eric,
Speaker 4: slightly afraid. He reminds her it was he who created her,
Speaker 4: it was he who gave her life. He softly touches
Speaker 4: her face, and Rachel's scowl turns into a smile. Eric
Speaker 4: realizes this is really gonna hurt, isn't it. She grabs
Speaker 4: his hand and hurls him onto the floor. There's like
Speaker 4: a sound effect of your handbreaking, right.
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 4: Just make that up?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah, the way she like bends your hand and
Speaker 3: I swear I here like probably yeah, because they added
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 6: Score in all the Truman Show sequences. So yeah, the.
Speaker 4: Students burst into applause, and we revealed two old ladies
Speaker 4: who were sitting nearby and holding pillows with Rachel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So in Truman Show, they at the end when he
Speaker 1: finally leaves, there's these two women, Like one of the
Speaker 1: runners is they keep cutting to the same families watching
Speaker 1: the show. There's one guy in the bathtub, there's one
Speaker 1: guy in the parking garage. And one of the people
Speaker 1: they keep cutting to is these two old women who
Speaker 1: are clutch pillows with Truman's face on it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they did exactly, Like yeah, just a it's a funny
Speaker 1: pull from that.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, we're back at brunch. Sean is getting another
Speaker 4: omelet from the chef, reminding him again about the Gouda.
Speaker 4: Then Corey races up to Sean waffle in hand. Now
Speaker 4: it has a sorrow face. Sean loves it. They hand
Speaker 4: the goodies over to Feenie and he wonders, why is
Speaker 4: my waffle so sad? And Corey reveals because we are.
Speaker 4: Sean nods in agreement, sad that we ever took advantage
Speaker 4: of our friendship. They continue listing reasons why they're sad,
Speaker 4: and Sean confesses, I'm sad. The whole thing blew up
Speaker 4: in our faces. He's sad, but he's honest. Phoene reminds
Speaker 4: them that they've already apologized. None of this is necessary.
Speaker 4: He takes a bite of the omelet love that goudha.
Speaker 4: Corey begs to differ, it is necessary, and we have
Speaker 4: something else for you. Sean chimes in, remember that paper
Speaker 4: we never turned in. The boys pull out pieces of paper.
Speaker 4: We stayed up all night and did it anyway. They
Speaker 4: figured it was the right thing to do, and they'd
Speaker 4: like to receive their grades based on the strengths of
Speaker 4: their efforts, not on the strengths of their friendship. Phoene
Speaker 4: pulls out his red grading pen and takes a look
Speaker 4: at the essays. He's deeply, deeply touched. He writes down
Speaker 4: their grades without hesitation. He's given them both f's. The
Speaker 4: boys quickly stand to leave and take Phoene's plates of
Speaker 4: food with them.
Speaker 6: And when the egg.
Speaker 2: Egg, oh my gosh, genius.
Speaker 4: It is so funny, Phoene shouts after them. What would
Speaker 4: a D minus get me a waffle? Is chucked back
Speaker 4: at the table and response and he goes back to eat.
Speaker 5: To go back in time and just see the like
Speaker 5: the rehearsal for that moment, like because like I have
Speaker 5: a feeling Ben and I never even had to like
Speaker 5: like we didn't have to go like you pick that
Speaker 5: up and all tack that up. I bet you, like
Speaker 5: first rehearsal you were like and go and like yeah,
Speaker 5: because that was the way we worked at this point.
Speaker 5: It was just like, oh, we have to clear this
Speaker 5: table as quickly as possible, and the two of us
Speaker 5: would just do it every time having to talk about it.
Speaker 5: It's like that kind of actor thing that you get from,
Speaker 5: you know, being in a company with somebody or being
Speaker 5: just but.
Speaker 6: I just know that that was like easy. There was
Speaker 6: no hesitation. We could we could do this to.
Speaker 5: The point that Ben could improv at the end, you know,
Speaker 5: he could a something that happened because we were so comfortable.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so great.
Speaker 4: And then we're in the tag in the apartment. Eric's
Speaker 4: eating in the kitchen when Jack casually mentions that the
Speaker 4: little stunt he pulled really backfired, but Eric doesn't agree.
Speaker 4: He's now the most popular guy on campus. Jack counter's
Speaker 4: not with Rachel while you were busy terrorizing her. Rachel
Speaker 4: and I got much closer, if you catch my drift.
Speaker 4: Eric can't believe what he's hearing. You ingrate, I put
Speaker 4: you on TV, and that's how you repay me by
Speaker 4: stealing my girl? How do you live with yourself? Jack
Speaker 4: confidently responds, I don't I live with you. I'm thinking
Speaker 4: Rachel and I might take our relationship to that next level.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Eric. On cue, Rachel walks in. She spots
Speaker 4: the boys and asks, could you guys disappear? I'd like
Speaker 4: to be left alone.
Speaker 3: With my date.
Speaker 4: They both look at her in horror. Rachel gushes, I
Speaker 4: found a guy who's absolutely crazy about me, and then
Speaker 4: Louie casually walks in and grabs Rachel's hand. Hay losers.
Speaker 3: Eric and Jack are utterly speechless.
Speaker 4: Rachel and Louie awkwardly stand by the staircase until Louie
Speaker 4: not so casually motions his head towards her room. Oh
Speaker 4: and that is our episode?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: Is that Sean only did two episodes?
Speaker 4: That's it?
Speaker 3: That was his tree too?
Speaker 6: And yeah I know him, I mean the obviously wrote
Speaker 6: this part for him, right or yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I get it's absurd. I wish
Speaker 1: I could go back and do parts of my performance again.
Speaker 1: That's that's what's bothering me, is my own performance.
Speaker 2: That's it, you know.
Speaker 6: And now that we've gone through it, I I tend
Speaker 6: to agree with you, man.
Speaker 5: I think that I think that it's not it's not
Speaker 5: modulated to where like because because listening to the recap,
Speaker 5: you actually do have this popular arc. It's as stupid
Speaker 5: as it is, you do have an arc, and like
Speaker 5: it's just I'm just like the tone of like what's
Speaker 5: real and what's not, what's playing in a choke and
Speaker 5: what's not usually for you is just like spot on
Speaker 5: and in this one, I feel like you're like, yeah.
Speaker 2: It's mudled. I had to it was I had to pick.
Speaker 2: I had to pick a lane, and I didn't. I
Speaker 2: kind of stayed in the middle. And because of that
Speaker 2: it got fun.
Speaker 4: Though, I mean, I know, I do think that if
Speaker 4: there had been anything, if it didn't start because he's
Speaker 4: sitting alone at a coffee table, if it started because
Speaker 4: Truman show, something like a Truman show is so is
Speaker 4: so popular.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, I can do that right?
Speaker 4: And then we then he could go full bore, but
Speaker 4: because we don't actually know what is inspiring this, you
Speaker 4: had to like ease into it. There's like yeah, because
Speaker 4: otherwise it would have been very.
Speaker 2: Jarring to be like what I started with the party
Speaker 2: that he wasn't invited to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe there's a big party going on and people
Speaker 1: and he walks up to the door and the like
Speaker 1: did invite only and then Jack and Rachel walk in
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of and it's like, why am I
Speaker 1: not allowed to do this? And then maybe he goes
Speaker 1: to the movies, Yeah, and he watches the Truman Show,
Speaker 1: you know, something like that, and then he comes out
Speaker 1: and it's everything's on.
Speaker 5: I'm just realizing now that like this is sort of
Speaker 5: in the in the tradition of Boy Meets World, like
Speaker 5: mocking television itself, you know, Like I didn't quite because
Speaker 5: I'm just thinking of the Truman Show references.
Speaker 6: But of course Eric is this like director making his
Speaker 6: TV show, and he's like, this is good television.
Speaker 5: And the irony there, of course, is like we're mocking
Speaker 5: the idea that you would have naked or girls and
Speaker 5: towels on cell of vision to get ratings when we're doing.
Speaker 6: That that's we're doing that exactly in the process of
Speaker 6: mocking it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, no, that was this is this
Speaker 2: to me?
Speaker 1: I wasn't a huge fan of my part in this episode,
Speaker 1: but it's totally my fault. This wasn't like what about
Speaker 1: the writing or what about this is me going, Oh,
Speaker 1: I wish I could have done this performance again, because
Speaker 1: I would. I would have done it differently the second Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a god, I love the best story. I felt
Speaker 1: like I was right back to point four finally.
Speaker 6: I hope there's more of that to come.
Speaker 4: Meet me too. Join us for our next episode recap,
Speaker 4: which will be season six, episode eleven, Santa's Little Helpers.
Speaker 4: It originally aired December eleventh, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Is this the start? This might be the start of Tommy?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 6: Really that was a Christmas remember, I think it started.
Speaker 1: I think it starts with Eric as Santa, and I
Speaker 1: think I think this is the start of the Tommy arc.
Speaker 2: Ooh, this is a good one, I think. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I could be wrong, but I think that's.
Speaker 1: What it is.
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