Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what you really miss podcasts. The
Speaker 1: most exciting episode ever.
Speaker 2: I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this week Britney Spears.
Speaker 1: It's Britney Bitch.
Speaker 2: This episode, I am shocked. It was episode two of
Speaker 2: season two. We were coming in hot, coming and swinging,
Speaker 2: take no prisoners.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for this episode to talk about this
Speaker 1: episode for so many reasons, Kevin, so many too. Let's
Speaker 1: just let's talk to me.
Speaker 2: I feel like at the time, because Britney Spears in
Speaker 2: the world of Britney Spears, she had just been through
Speaker 2: a lot, which happens we address in the episode. But
Speaker 2: I do feel like we were not in a position
Speaker 2: to talk about the experience of having her on set
Speaker 2: no and shooting this episode. So I'm excited. I think
Speaker 2: for the first time any of us will really talk
Speaker 2: about what this experience was actually like.
Speaker 1: And also because of all the happenings with her life
Speaker 1: and the conservatorship and like getting out of it and
Speaker 1: everything that was going on with her, it feels like
Speaker 1: things are clear, things make sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, hindsight absolutely is twenty twenty. Yes, when it comes
Speaker 2: to this, because we were a bit confused. Yeh, what
Speaker 2: was happening?
Speaker 1: Well, let's just get into it then.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the air date for Brittany Brittany was September
Speaker 2: twenty eighth, two thy ten. The number one song in
Speaker 2: the country was Just the Way You Are Abur Bruno
Speaker 2: mars Okay. Number one movie was Wall Street Money Never Sleeps.
Speaker 1: That was that long ago.
Speaker 2: And a year before on this day, Corey and Amber
Speaker 2: rang the bell the New York Stock Exchange, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1: I mean that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, like the show had just premiered. That's right,
Speaker 2: Fox really got poll well. I mean this was after
Speaker 2: all the pilot had aired. Sot's be fair still crazy.
Speaker 2: This episode was.
Speaker 1: Directed and technically written by Lady Ryan Murphy, and of
Speaker 1: course we have two very special guest stars this episode.
Speaker 1: Britney Spears herself and all of her pop music brilliance
Speaker 1: and the first of John Stamos as Carl Howell and
Speaker 1: the Pilsbury's new boyfriend and just the ugliest person alive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's terrible, terrible to look at, and he's just
Speaker 2: so mean. He's not a nice person, so horribly mean.
Speaker 2: It's a shame and not charming, shocking, you know.
Speaker 1: Not friendly, not not nice, not not just grotesque, just kidding.
Speaker 1: John Saymoss is the nicest person. When he showed up
Speaker 1: and said, we were all so starstruck that Uncle Jesse
Speaker 1: was there, and he was literally our best friend in
Speaker 1: probably tea Menu is twenty four hours. It was the
Speaker 1: coolest thing to.
Speaker 2: Hang out with us in our trailers, like he was
Speaker 2: getting the game together and just shooting the shit, like
Speaker 2: so like, what's going on? And would tell us stories.
Speaker 1: And well, Kevin, do you remember that when this episode
Speaker 1: aired where we watched this episode?
Speaker 2: Absolutely tell it, Jenna.
Speaker 1: Okay. So John's like, my friend wants to screen my
Speaker 1: first episode and for us at his house, So why
Speaker 1: don't you guys come over? And it was me and
Speaker 1: Kevin and then we were like great, Like what was there,
Speaker 1: no problem? I don't know, I don't know. We we
Speaker 1: can good friends with me though, like I still you know,
Speaker 1: we still stay in touch with him. And so I
Speaker 1: don't know why it was you and me, but we
Speaker 1: went and they gave us. He sent us the address
Speaker 1: and I must have put it in my infinity car
Speaker 1: and like into the GPS and I was like.
Speaker 3: I'll pick you up and we drive up the hill.
Speaker 2: We keep driving up the hill. It keeps going to.
Speaker 1: Stop and it's literally like that's the end of the line.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Kevin, I think this is wrong. And
Speaker 1: I so vividly remember you being like seeing the moment
Speaker 1: of realization being like, no, Jenna, I don't think this
Speaker 1: is wrong. And we buzzed the gatecode and they let
Speaker 1: us into the most extravagant home I have ever been to,
Speaker 1: and it is we find we they open the door
Speaker 1: and we find it to be Jeff Franklin, who created
Speaker 1: Full House, and two Golden Retrievers come to greet us
Speaker 1: at the door, and I'm like, oh, it's Commet Wanting.
Speaker 2: You really have a great memory.
Speaker 1: Oh this is ingrained in my memory because it was
Speaker 1: so it was like my childhood, like Oprah, Great White House, Great,
Speaker 1: the Full House creator with the Tanner family is literally
Speaker 1: I have tears coming to my eyes. It was truly
Speaker 1: a dream.
Speaker 2: It's also the night I realized to me what defines
Speaker 2: surreal amounts of wealth because the hallway and that house
Speaker 2: was so big. I was like, if you can have
Speaker 2: a hallway that could fit multiple cars.
Speaker 1: Well, also, there's like a full parking garage, so let
Speaker 1: me just say that there was a valley with a
Speaker 1: full parking garage. We walk in, there's aquariums everywhere, like
Speaker 1: down the hall. Jeff's house is amazing. Jeff is also
Speaker 1: the nicest person. And we get in there. We sit
Speaker 1: down at dinner. We're gonna have a dinner first, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I imagined us like hanging out on somebody's floor.
Speaker 1: We sat in a full like large dining room table
Speaker 1: like a la game of throat, and they serve us
Speaker 1: food and who are we sitting there with? But like
Speaker 1: the whole cast, main family cast of full House and
Speaker 1: John forgot to tell us this. Let me rephrase that,
Speaker 1: Uncle Jesse forgot to tell us that. And it's just
Speaker 1: so normal. It was so wild, it was so wild.
Speaker 1: And then they remember they took us downstairs to the.
Speaker 2: Yes, beautiful like extravagant.
Speaker 1: With pop with popcorn fresh popcorn being it was a
Speaker 1: full episode.
Speaker 2: We went in like if you had watched those Houses
Speaker 2: and Cribs in the early two thousands, it was one
Speaker 2: of the just sort of trumps.
Speaker 1: That absolutely so we we go when we watch, it's
Speaker 1: on a big screen. We're watching the John Steam was
Speaker 1: his first episode on Glee with the cast of Full House. Like,
Speaker 1: maybe that's not how some people felt like when they
Speaker 1: hung out with the Castle Glee or met the Castle Lily,
Speaker 1: but that's how I felt when I was I literally
Speaker 1: was texting my brother and he was like, Jenna, are
Speaker 1: you okay? Are you actually okay? It was a dream
Speaker 1: come true. And then we went to Jeff's a bunch
Speaker 1: more after that, and he just for reference, he had
Speaker 1: the beach Boys come and play in his backyard once
Speaker 1: at a party. He has this this like lazy river
Speaker 1: with like three pole a waterfall. I literally lost one
Speaker 1: of my diamond rings in his pool once and I
Speaker 1: was like, well it's gone. I'm not asking Jeff to
Speaker 1: like school always can find my ring, so I'll see
Speaker 1: you later. And it is the It was the wildest experience.
Speaker 1: But that will go down in infamy for me, like
Speaker 1: in history for sure.
Speaker 2: I John Stamos in the Castle House has weird effects
Speaker 2: on people like that. It was also my boyfriend at
Speaker 2: the time, Marco. He he had met so many people
Speaker 2: with me. He had met Diana Ross, like he had
Speaker 2: met very famous people. He was at the show and
Speaker 2: he'd come visit all the time. And I was in
Speaker 2: the bathroom and someone knocks on my trailer door that
Speaker 2: first week during this episode and he answers it and
Speaker 2: it's John Stamos, and all I hear is Marco going,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Hi, my name is Marco Kevin's the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I just want to say that I've been a big
Speaker 2: fan of yours. I grew up in Brazil and like
Speaker 2: we loveful house. No, I have never seen him starstruck,
Speaker 2: like he didn't know who Danna Ross was when I
Speaker 2: introduced him, and he just starts blabbering and I come
Speaker 2: like I flushed the toilet. I'm like I got to
Speaker 2: get out there and save him, Like what is happening?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, are you kidding me? Like this is
Speaker 2: our first week with this guy, and you're embarrassing the
Speaker 2: shit out of me. But of course John did not
Speaker 2: care at all.
Speaker 1: But well, also because like John literally can't walk outside
Speaker 1: without getting recognized and so it it's crazy. John is
Speaker 1: also like the biggest Disney family. Have to talk to
Speaker 1: him about that because his house. He took us to
Speaker 1: Disherland once and it was the most magical experience there
Speaker 1: and John it was It was really fun though. We
Speaker 1: had a good time anyway, John's been going a friend.
Speaker 1: We're so grateful that Uncle Jesse was that cool and
Speaker 1: he's just literally a gem of a human, so wonderful.
Speaker 1: We had just the best time every time he came back,
Speaker 1: and obviously he has lots of fun things to do
Speaker 1: throughout the season. Let's talk about Brittany.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we do four iconic Britney songs plus a
Speaker 2: great rendition of a Paramore song that's thrown in there
Speaker 2: at the end.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that and I was like, oh, so
Speaker 1: it's not technically a Brittany.
Speaker 2: I remember when we were filming that scene, We're like,
Speaker 2: so this isn't really a Brittany episode. But it was
Speaker 2: also just a great rendition of it. And I remember
Speaker 2: doing really well on iTunes.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, and there were a handful of we all
Speaker 1: were obviously Brittany fans. We all actually like in the
Speaker 1: Glee Club when you talk when we were talking about
Speaker 1: like how we grew up with Brittany, we all did
Speaker 1: grow with Brittany and she was such an iconic art
Speaker 1: of our childhood and pop culture obviously, but I was
Speaker 1: a really huge Britney fan, and so aways Heather Morris,
Speaker 1: to the point where I had I had magazine cut
Speaker 1: out of Brittany on each blade of my ceiling fan
Speaker 1: I had the got milk ad were in her like
Speaker 1: black tank top and over my light switch, like I
Speaker 1: cut her out. I had every poster. I saw her
Speaker 1: multiple times in concert, I saw her in Vegas. I
Speaker 1: literally lived breathed. My hair was always like styled like hers.
Speaker 1: I wore. I got all the outfits that she had.
Speaker 1: I was It was a mild obsession, I would say.
Speaker 1: And so this was a huge moment.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when we were in Phoenix, Arizona setting
Speaker 2: up our first tour a couple months prior to this.
Speaker 2: I remember sitting with Ryan. He walked with us to
Speaker 2: like a little cafe man, it might have been Starbucks actually,
Speaker 2: and he was like, so, what would you guys think
Speaker 2: about a Brittany themed episode? And we were like, oh no.
Speaker 2: He gave us a couple of options, right, he was like,
Speaker 2: Brittany or somebody, and I forgot what the second choice was.
Speaker 2: And I just remember you being like Brittany, absolutely, Brittany
Speaker 2: and you told him how Sesty were with him, and
Speaker 2: I remember him wanting to like do something good about
Speaker 2: Brittany because she had been getting so much hate and
Speaker 2: like shitty shitty press and.
Speaker 3: Well because of all of her like outbursts, you know.
Speaker 2: And so I remember him talking about how it could
Speaker 2: be interesting and we come back for a season two,
Speaker 2: maybe we'ld be doing a brit the episode, and I
Speaker 2: remember we were really looking forward to it and hoping
Speaker 2: it was Brittany, and then, of course Love and Behold
Speaker 2: ended up being Brittany. And I remember you and I
Speaker 2: were living together by this time, and we opened up
Speaker 2: our scripts to see like who was doing what, and
Speaker 2: then I remember I saw that I was getting to
Speaker 2: see saying stronger and I was like, oh no, yep.
Speaker 2: But I was like, but I get a song think
Speaker 2: Jenna does, And I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was upset. I didn't get a Britney song,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but the episode is so good that
Speaker 1: like whatever, And now I look back and like whatever,
Speaker 1: I would have loved to do a Britney number, but
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: What would you have liked to have done?
Speaker 1: I would have loved to do Lucky. Oh God, just
Speaker 1: like put her in the music video on the flying Moves,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, just do it anyway.
Speaker 1: That's Tina's a dream that she never got to see through.
Speaker 1: But I love your edition of Stronger, and I know
Speaker 1: you're very proud of it as well.
Speaker 2: I liked it. I like Ryan really did not care
Speaker 2: about it what so he's like, I know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I know you you loved your version of this song.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I was really Britney Spears meant a lot
Speaker 2: to us, and I was really set on making sure
Speaker 2: that I did this rendition proud because and her proud
Speaker 2: because we grew up on her. I grew up on
Speaker 2: pop music. And it's the only time I went to
Speaker 2: like vocal lessons during the run of the show during
Speaker 2: the season for a specific song because it was really
Speaker 2: high for me and I wanted to be able to
Speaker 2: do it, and I wanted to be able to nail
Speaker 2: it and also just show the people who were working
Speaker 2: with like I can do this type of music, like
Speaker 2: this type of singing and try to belt for me.
Speaker 2: And I remember there was a guy in the studio
Speaker 2: who was of course Swedish like the rest of them,
Speaker 2: but he I believed worked under Max Martin, who wrote
Speaker 2: and produced Stronger in most of Britain's songs, and so
Speaker 2: it was just me and him in the studio. He
Speaker 2: was the one actually recording me, as opposed to having
Speaker 2: Adam in there, which was really strange. I remember they
Speaker 2: were recording something else and so he had me do
Speaker 2: it with him, and that made me even more nervous.
Speaker 2: But it ended up being the fastest recording session because
Speaker 2: those Max Martin people know exactly what they want and
Speaker 2: when they got it and.
Speaker 1: Do it right right and then moving on. It's like
Speaker 1: a good director that like literally gets the table.
Speaker 2: And maybe because I was rehearsed or practiced more, and
Speaker 2: also I knew this song and I forgot.
Speaker 1: Well that's it, right, Yeah, if we know the songs,
Speaker 1: like our recording sessions are definitely alone.
Speaker 2: And most of the time I didn't know the song.
Speaker 2: And so this one I remember going in there and
Speaker 2: we get to and I've told the story before, but
Speaker 2: we get to the second verse, and I forgot that
Speaker 2: we'd have to do the second verse because they had
Speaker 2: sent me the TV at it, and so I only
Speaker 2: practiced the short version, and I think I did the
Speaker 2: second verse. In like three takes, I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 2: still remember this. I got it. I don't need the
Speaker 2: lyrics for it. Oh And it was just so much fun,
Speaker 2: like being a recording studio, getting to sing Britney Spears
Speaker 2: music like that is the pinnacle of pop perfection, and
Speaker 2: I was obsessed.
Speaker 1: I will say I get to do a Brittany song
Speaker 1: later in the seasons, that's true, which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: lame when we get there. So I did get my
Speaker 1: Brittany dream, but not this time.
Speaker 2: So for this episode, there's not a lot of that
Speaker 2: happens story wise, there's not that's much happening. We're just
Speaker 2: having fun.
Speaker 1: And also like we literally go from a scene and
Speaker 1: we literally cut to a music.
Speaker 2: Like multi and rapid succession. There's there's not even like
Speaker 2: music video scene which just introduces music video.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing, it's I'm you know what, I I
Speaker 1: didn't care. It didn't matter to you.
Speaker 2: So I think for this episode, because there's not about
Speaker 2: a story, let's cover that quickly and then let's talk
Speaker 2: about yeah, the memories more of making making of this episode. So, okay,
Speaker 2: tell us about this episode, Jenna.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Brittany S Pierce, Rachel Santana, and Artie all
Speaker 1: go to the dentist because well, aside from Santana, have
Speaker 1: plaque on their teeth, and they go under and have
Speaker 1: hallucinations at doctor Carl's and they channel their inner Britney Spears.
Speaker 1: They live you guys, let me say, you guys, live
Speaker 1: out your Britney Spears's dreams. Meanwhile, Finn's status on the
Speaker 1: football team has disrupted his relationship with Rachel. It was
Speaker 1: actually good when he was off the team, and now
Speaker 1: he's back on and there's a lot of conflict.
Speaker 2: So that's sort of it. And then there's Britney And
Speaker 2: basically what happens is the glee club wants to do
Speaker 2: Britney Spears. Mister Schue is so against it, and I
Speaker 2: love that he's like really doubling down and doing Christopher
Speaker 2: Cross music. And Brittany S. Peers is very adamant against
Speaker 2: doing Britney Spears music because her name is Britney S
Speaker 2: Piers aka Britney.
Speaker 1: Spears, and she's lived in the shadow of Britney Spears,
Speaker 1: and she wants the Glee Club to respect that will
Speaker 1: never do Britney Spears. Kurt also meanwhile, is petitioning hard
Speaker 1: for Britney Spears because she's been obviously just a legend
Speaker 1: in our upbringings.
Speaker 2: And this was the in this scene, this was the
Speaker 2: first of many also viral references or senti and it says,
Speaker 2: leave Brittany alone. That's obviously a Brittany centric one. But
Speaker 2: there's also there you go, Bluetooth that nice says later
Speaker 2: on to me. Those from one of our favorite videos.
Speaker 1: And David at the dentist when Rachel wakes up and says,
Speaker 1: is this real life? Which we watched over and over
Speaker 1: and over.
Speaker 2: You've been listening since the beginning. When Ryan is on set,
Speaker 2: we get to play because he's had Diva in charge
Speaker 2: and so right he'll throw us lines and allow us
Speaker 2: to sort of do these things if he finds some funny.
Speaker 2: And I feel like a lot of this was because
Speaker 2: he'd be around us, and when I would say, there
Speaker 2: you go, Bluetooth, I would lose my mind.
Speaker 1: It almost seemed like she was having a hard time
Speaker 1: saying it with a straight face, also just because she
Speaker 1: couldn't look at me like, oh my god, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. There you go bluetooth. So then we
Speaker 1: have an intertwining storyline with Carl, the dentist who is
Speaker 1: now dating Emma Pillsbury. He comes to school, well, he
Speaker 1: wants to talk to the kids about good dental hygiene.
Speaker 1: Will with you know, kind of intentions of his own
Speaker 1: is like, Carl, why don't you come talk with the
Speaker 1: glee club. Carl so happy, he has everybody to the
Speaker 1: weird gum with the blue teeth and already hemo, Brittany
Speaker 1: and Rachel all have these blue teeth. What did they
Speaker 1: put on your teeth to make them blue?
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I remember Aaron coming in and literally like putting it
Speaker 1: on your teeth and we had to not really.
Speaker 2: Like put our lips over it a lot because it
Speaker 2: would wipe it off, and they kept having to come
Speaker 2: in between takes to put more blue on our teeth.
Speaker 2: Just gross, like these kids the bad hygiene was. I
Speaker 2: was embarrassed.
Speaker 1: So it's funny. It was very funny. I really liked that.
Speaker 1: So Carl comes and he talks to everybody and obviously
Speaker 1: you got the blue teeth. So then and we have
Speaker 1: visitors at the dentist's office, and the first one is
Speaker 1: Brittany because she has a cavity on every tooth and
Speaker 1: she breaks into the most iconic I mean, Heather was
Speaker 1: a huge Brittany family, like huge, huge, huge, huge huge
Speaker 1: like me. And she gets to do slate for you,
Speaker 1: which she got to do on tour, and I mean
Speaker 1: I could watch that number over and over just for
Speaker 1: Heather's dancing alone. But like then, all the looks that
Speaker 1: she gets to do are hands down, it's the.
Speaker 3: Coolest thing I ever, like, one of the coolest things
Speaker 3: we've ever done on the show, I think.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the real snake from the actual performance.
Speaker 1: Well also, not only is it just the real snake,
Speaker 1: but I asked Heather if she was scared of the
Speaker 1: snake because in the number, you see the snake kind
Speaker 1: of crawl onto her mic and so she sent us
Speaker 1: a little something. Okay, sometimes I think I'm a witch.
Speaker 1: I don't even think so.
Speaker 4: I think I am really a witch because I was
Speaker 4: just thinking about the Britain Briny episode today. I mean really,
Speaker 4: I was cutting my reel together and I was watching
Speaker 4: part of it. Anyways, Yes, so the snake, I wasn't scared.
Speaker 4: I was like very excited because I was obviously a
Speaker 4: fan of the original video, and if Brittany had done
Speaker 4: it in the video and also live on stage, I
Speaker 4: could have done it. I also knew that they were
Speaker 4: like super safe animals. But when we started rolling, the
Speaker 4: snake decided that my mouth was its home base. So
Speaker 4: when you saw the take where it was like up
Speaker 4: on my mic, it actually like kept trying to go
Speaker 4: in my mouth when I would sing, Like every time
Speaker 4: I would do the you know, the lip syning part,
Speaker 4: it was like really trying to get inside my mouth.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it was being an unroom albino snake for
Speaker 4: a few takes in and out. Other than that, it
Speaker 4: was a really good actor and I loved paying the
Speaker 4: scene with it, and you know, I give all my
Speaker 4: acting cred to it.
Speaker 1: It did a great job. So yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: answers your question. I loved it. It was great.
Speaker 4: I would do it a million times over.
Speaker 2: I remember that now it's coming back to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, because I saw them and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, that's it was the snake, and obviously the
Speaker 1: snake wanted to me in Heather's mouth. But Brittany's performance also,
Speaker 1: I would say Heather's performance in this whole episode, but
Speaker 1: especially in that first scene, is just a plus. Oh yes, plus,
Speaker 1: I told her.
Speaker 2: I mean she gets in that red Vinyl outfit from
Speaker 2: Oops going through the classroom. It's hilarious and so good,
Speaker 2: and that the little children that sparkle catsuit that she's
Speaker 2: dancing on Carl. It's just she's so good.
Speaker 1: She's so hot.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's super hot.
Speaker 1: It's hot, and her dancing is so.
Speaker 2: The only thing I'm mad about is that we didn't
Speaker 2: get to personally like be in those scenes and watch
Speaker 2: her get to do all these Britney numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean we were in me against the music. They
Speaker 1: would look really closely, you guys, if you look really closely,
Speaker 1: we're in one of the picnic table benches things. And
Speaker 1: in between Ryan would come and hang out with us
Speaker 1: and we would make him laugh and how there would
Speaker 1: be practicing her dance moves and it was really funny
Speaker 1: because we're like, why are we here.
Speaker 2: I remember being in that booth. It was sort of
Speaker 2: like a restaurant booth and being like, I'm so small
Speaker 2: and I'm shoved with this booth. I know I'm never
Speaker 2: going to be on camera, and I was just I
Speaker 2: didn't see no one and having a great time getting
Speaker 2: to watch. So that's the second number. So once Brittany
Speaker 2: goes back to class and says that she had this,
Speaker 2: you know, incredible experience under anesthesia at Carl's office and
Speaker 2: she's found her power. From Brittany, she goes back with Santana,
Speaker 2: and Santana evinces Carl to put her under and she.
Speaker 1: Says, my dad, my dad's a real doctor.
Speaker 2: Not a dentist, and they remake the me against the
Speaker 2: music video, which is I mean, unreal, also just hilarious
Speaker 2: abandoned story. You know, let's just keep the hits coming too.
Speaker 1: Let's cut back to the dentist office real quick. Let's
Speaker 1: get into their dance number. And also like great I
Speaker 1: was here for.
Speaker 2: I was watching all the dancers. They're incredible. It was
Speaker 2: expert level on every end. And then at the very
Speaker 2: end of it, I guess who shows up for her
Speaker 2: first appearance.
Speaker 1: Britney Speed.
Speaker 2: It's the real one.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just.
Speaker 2: And she looks great and she's like she does, You're
Speaker 2: really hot, Brittany like you're sweet. Fever dream, Yeah, complete
Speaker 2: fever dream, and and I mean and then we just
Speaker 2: keep going. Kurt, you know, is like not letting this go.
Speaker 2: He's like, that's right, mister Shue, can we do this again?
Speaker 2: And then calls him uptight. And that's something that's been
Speaker 2: happening with Will this whole episode, is that he's uptight.
Speaker 2: He needs to loosen up. Carl's trying to get him
Speaker 2: to loosen up. He ends up going. Will goes to
Speaker 2: the dentist to see Carl, and Carl's like, you're fine,
Speaker 2: here's some candy. Loosen up. So then it's Rachel's turn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He runs into Rachel in the waiting room. She's like,
Speaker 1: is that candy? And literally they have this very short
Speaker 1: scene where they run into each other. It just places
Speaker 1: Rachel at the dentist. Right, we don't even see her
Speaker 1: go under. We don't see her with doctor Carl. Should
Speaker 1: We literally cut to the clock in the classroom for
Speaker 1: Hit Me Baby One More Time?
Speaker 2: And Britney Spears is at the front of the class
Speaker 2: as the teacher, which is really cool, and we do
Speaker 2: this like incredible almost shot for shot remake of Baby
Speaker 2: One More Time.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: You have to say. Leah's lip syncing is hilarious in
Speaker 2: this number, like she is going full Britney spears or nineties, yes,
Speaker 2: exactly over lip syncing. The tongue is basically hitting the.
Speaker 1: Nose, which is what Britny did, so kudos hilarious. So
Speaker 1: then Rachel is renewed as well as Brittany, feeling like
Speaker 1: they have this new sense of confidence and she wants
Speaker 1: to elevate her look, so she comes in looking like
Speaker 1: her hit Me Baby One More Time uniform look, where
Speaker 1: Finn sees her and as we see Finn and Rachel
Speaker 1: kind of talking about this, we run into Jacob in Israel,
Speaker 1: and Jacob in Israel is like drooling basically, and he's like,
Speaker 1: what do you want for? I'll give you anything. I'll
Speaker 1: give you my house, I'll kill my parents, I'll give
Speaker 1: you my house. Wanky wanky. I know that he got
Speaker 1: a lot of hate for this episode, so we'll have
Speaker 1: to ask him at some point and and then along
Speaker 1: the lines of or I mean, Jacob in Israel's storyline
Speaker 1: continues in this episode where he is caught by Sue,
Speaker 1: who's in a net priss after the school riot. Jumping
Speaker 1: ahead and Jacob and Israel is caught.
Speaker 2: Touching himself.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Rachel's As Britney spears and and he
Speaker 1: leaves a big fat sweat stain, but sweat stain on
Speaker 1: Sue's chair, which we see. It's all very strange. I
Speaker 1: could have done with all without all of this in
Speaker 1: the episode, but I guess we had to have some
Speaker 1: conflict and it and that's that, and that's that we're
Speaker 1: cutting to. And then we cut to Artie and Tina
Speaker 1: and Brittany in the hallway, yes, where Brittany is say
Speaker 1: telling Tina that she is an idiot for breaking up
Speaker 1: with Artie, and I say, I know Brittany, And that's
Speaker 1: where we get to be Britney spears and work with her.
Speaker 2: It's true and and we'll talk about that. Let's let's
Speaker 2: get into it, Okay. So we find out Brittany is
Speaker 2: coming onto the show and we can't believe it, but
Speaker 2: it was also a little bit of is she going
Speaker 2: to come? Is she not going to come? We weren't
Speaker 2: like totally sure she was going to show up.
Speaker 1: And things were still in rocky waters for Brittany around
Speaker 1: this time, and so.
Speaker 2: What we were told was that the day she was coming,
Speaker 2: everyone would have to wear wristbands to get onto set.
Speaker 2: She had her own trailers set up with like a
Speaker 2: fence around it, right up next to one of the stages,
Speaker 2: so our trailers were, you know, like a five minute
Speaker 2: walk away. Hers was right there and very protected from anything.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's because like Ryan gave them all
Speaker 2: the protections that you know, she'd be super secure she normally. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: So I remember you and I and Heather stroll up
Speaker 2: to set to rehearse the scene of us in the
Speaker 2: hallway and yeah, Ryan rings into Piggins's office and we're waiting,
Speaker 2: and then Britney Spears comes in and it's very and
Speaker 2: also everyone on set, so these are the same crew
Speaker 2: members we've now been with for like a year and
Speaker 2: a half. Everyone is like, this is so weird because
Speaker 2: it's very quiet.
Speaker 1: Well, it's very quiet. Everybody's wearing these crazy like name
Speaker 1: tags and wristband things like you said, and everybody is
Speaker 1: like walking on eggs shells.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: It's like you were waiting for it even feels like
Speaker 1: you were any for president.
Speaker 2: It was like you didn't want to like spook the cat,
Speaker 2: like if you moved, like the cat was going to
Speaker 2: run off, And that's what it was. Very that it
Speaker 2: was very If anybody speaks too loudly or moves too quickly,
Speaker 2: like were we afraid Britney Spears is just going to
Speaker 2: run away? I don't know, maybe, but that's what I
Speaker 2: sort of felt like.
Speaker 1: And Ryan was very good. He was very kind to
Speaker 1: her the whole time. He's always a kind director, but
Speaker 1: he was very kind and like, very very good, Brittany.
Speaker 1: And what do you need, Brittany, what do you want
Speaker 1: to do? And so you me and Heather just chickens
Speaker 1: office across from one Britney Spears.
Speaker 2: That's all that was in the room, Like there was
Speaker 2: nobody else in the room.
Speaker 1: It was just rehearsing this scene and running it a
Speaker 1: couple of times. And she had like her line on
Speaker 1: a piece of patient.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, like an email that was just the
Speaker 2: lines written out for that scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, And she was seen. She was very quiet and
Speaker 1: very nice, very nervous, a little very nervous. You could
Speaker 1: see kind of like her hands with the paper, like
Speaker 1: a little nervous and a little, if you will, in
Speaker 1: the nicest way possible, a little vacant. Yes, And I
Speaker 1: mean that in literally the kindest way, because I think
Speaker 1: we were at that point she must have been going
Speaker 1: through so much. We had no idea with the conservator ship,
Speaker 1: We had no idea. All we knew was always in
Speaker 1: the press, and all we knew was seeing the umbrella,
Speaker 1: you know, in the car windshield and the shaving of
Speaker 1: the head and all of it. So this was like,
Speaker 1: I'm and you imagine all of her people and Hammlers
Speaker 1: and everybody without the Conservatorship are probably so protective of
Speaker 1: her because of all of the press that she gets
Speaker 1: on the data. To then add in the layer of
Speaker 1: like conservatorship which we didn't know about, of her being
Speaker 1: completely like in jail, you know, in her personal hell.
Speaker 1: It was it breaks my heart and I still love
Speaker 1: Britney Spears, but it was a really strange experience.
Speaker 2: It was hard. It was like out our body, absolutely
Speaker 2: out of body, and it was really hard to sort
Speaker 2: of witness what was happening because she had like a
Speaker 2: huge team around her. And then I remember when we
Speaker 2: actually then decided to shoot the scene. We walked out
Speaker 2: in the hallway and she was really trying, like she
Speaker 2: really wanted to. She's like, oh, let me do it again,
Speaker 2: and Ryan would be like great, She's like, is it okay?
Speaker 2: If I tried this had ideas, it was great, and
Speaker 2: then she would like get whisked away, like somebody from
Speaker 2: her team or something would like take her away, and
Speaker 2: she'd come back and be sort of again, for lack
Speaker 2: of a better word, a bit vacant. And it was
Speaker 2: this weird thing where it felt like we were getting
Speaker 2: in a rhythm. Then all of a sudden we'd have
Speaker 2: to like take a break and she'd disappeared for like
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. Yeah, And I don't know what that was either,
Speaker 2: And I felt bad, but also.
Speaker 1: Like it felt like it felt like she couldn't Like
Speaker 1: now i'm looking back, it felt like when we want
Speaker 1: to ask a question or something or talk to around,
Speaker 1: it felt like you were talking around her and like
Speaker 1: people were answering for her yes all the time.
Speaker 2: And it felt like there were times when Ryan might
Speaker 2: give her a note or she had an idea and
Speaker 2: she would ask something yeah, then somebody would magically appear
Speaker 2: and try to like handle it for her. And I
Speaker 2: remember all of us talking afterwards being like she wanted
Speaker 2: to be participating, and it felt like she was not
Speaker 2: given the chance to participate in the way that she
Speaker 2: wanted to yes, which looking back makes sense. And I
Speaker 2: remember speaking to Heather later afterwards, you know, because she
Speaker 2: had her one on one with her and everyone had
Speaker 2: the same sort of vibe, like it was just weird,
Speaker 2: Like it was like you're almost trying to, like you said,
Speaker 2: talk around somebody who's right there in the room and
Speaker 2: pretending that they're not there.
Speaker 1: And in retro was practiced like she wanted to be there.
Speaker 1: She wanted to do it, like you said, but because she.
Speaker 2: Lit up once she was, it was it was amazing,
Speaker 2: like the Britney Spears we know as a performer. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden that camera was rolling and she got
Speaker 2: like one take under her belt. She was doing it
Speaker 2: like she was fully in it.
Speaker 1: Well she she is who she is for a reason, right,
Speaker 1: It's like she is the entertainer that she is, no
Speaker 1: matter what she was.
Speaker 2: Contributing to, like the process of it, and it was
Speaker 2: obviously weird. And I don't know if she noticed it
Speaker 2: was weird. It was her one day on our set,
Speaker 2: and obviously it was different for us. But I just
Speaker 2: remember walking away and I was like, are you okay, Jenna,
Speaker 2: this is your idol? Like was this weird?
Speaker 1: Like did this it was really weird? It was a
Speaker 1: really weird experience to meet your hero and it not
Speaker 1: we go exactly the way. It wasn't disappointing in a
Speaker 1: way that like you're like, oh, she's a horrible person,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? It wasn't like that experience.
Speaker 1: It was just very like guarded, Like everything was so
Speaker 1: guarded around her, Like her trailer had those like seven
Speaker 1: foot black walls.
Speaker 3: It felt like she had seven foot black walls around.
Speaker 2: It was like the whole thing was unsetting.
Speaker 3: And we were so grateful she was there, and we
Speaker 3: were so excited to have her, and we were so
Speaker 3: thrilled that we had her music and we were doing
Speaker 3: it so like it was this very like weird contrast
Speaker 3: of being so excited and then also like now I
Speaker 3: just feel sad thinking about what she was going through
Speaker 3: at the time.
Speaker 2: She had a good time. I know it was brief,
Speaker 2: but she enjoyed it. We really loved having her there.
Speaker 2: And I just couldn't believe I get to high five
Speaker 2: Forritty Spears. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: The whole time I was just she said our character
Speaker 1: she was in and Ryan did that because he knew
Speaker 1: we were the biggest fans of her. You know, that
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 2: It was I couldn't believe it. I was really excited
Speaker 2: for you. I remember when we were in Figin's office
Speaker 2: because I knew I was a massive fan, but I
Speaker 2: know how at the time, like I don't even know
Speaker 2: who came in there. At the time, I was obsessed
Speaker 2: with Justin Timberlake. So Justin Timberlake had come on, I
Speaker 2: probably would have been freaking out.
Speaker 1: It could have been mister s.
Speaker 2: So I remember watching to watch her and I was like,
Speaker 2: this is so cool.
Speaker 1: It really is. Like Heather and I were holding hands
Speaker 1: because I think we were both unwell in that moment
Speaker 1: and like we knew exactly what we were going through. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was really cool though, honestly, just to say that
Speaker 1: we were able to We've worked with Britney Spears before,
Speaker 1: like I worked with Britney Spears, and then we get
Speaker 1: into doing your numbers stronger where you are a hunk
Speaker 1: on the football.
Speaker 2: It's a strong word. I made some of the ugliest
Speaker 2: faces known to man.
Speaker 1: And this number, oh please, this number was great and
Speaker 1: I wish you could have danced it. But it was
Speaker 1: really great and all the football players were awesome and
Speaker 1: the dancers and you you sang down and it's a
Speaker 1: really fun way to see a guy do a girls
Speaker 1: like Brittany's songs. So I was, and I also forgot
Speaker 1: that I was there because there was a late night
Speaker 1: shoot and I remember they were running, you were running behind,
Speaker 1: and I was hanging in the trailer. I was probably sleeping,
Speaker 1: and I remember it was one shot and I was like,
Speaker 1: I am still here. It's like mister Shoe and what
Speaker 1: Matt would go through a lot.
Speaker 2: I just remember too, like all those little references, like
Speaker 2: you know that scene with you yelling at me and
Speaker 2: Ryan was directing and you're like swinging your hair and
Speaker 2: he had you go above and beyond when we're in
Speaker 2: that huddle, and I throw my hands in front of
Speaker 2: my face like that was a I and did that
Speaker 2: when he was giving me a note, He's like, you know,
Speaker 2: just like use your hands and get into it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: it makes no sense. But he just wanted everything to
Speaker 2: be just do it. You just do it exactly. And
Speaker 2: I love doing that because it would make him giggle.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: And so Finn continues to get bullied already sort of
Speaker 2: steps in to like stop a fight from breaking out
Speaker 2: and basically says, you know, like Hey, it was my fault.
Speaker 2: You're not on the team. I'm sorry about that, and
Speaker 2: Beast hears this. Also noticed that sam Akay Court is
Speaker 2: nowhere to be seen in this episode after we've just
Speaker 2: met him, right, he's not in Gleek Club yet.
Speaker 1: He's not stronger. Well, we end up seeing like the
Speaker 1: good side of coaching. We start seeing the angel of
Speaker 1: coach Pece.
Speaker 2: Absolutely Finn gets back on the football team and Rachel
Speaker 2: has an issue with it when she said she wouldn't
Speaker 2: and then tests Finn's allegiance by putting Quinn you know,
Speaker 2: up to the test of hitting on him, and then
Speaker 2: he shuts her down.
Speaker 1: And I gotta love that. I gotta love seeing a
Speaker 1: Rachel Quinn.
Speaker 2: I do love that.
Speaker 1: We just love it. I dig it.
Speaker 2: And before Meanwhile, before we get to this last moment
Speaker 2: where she realizes that Finn's not going to like leave
Speaker 2: her or cheat on her and that they're actually okay,
Speaker 2: you know her, she doesn't have to dress up as
Speaker 2: Britney spears, he can still be on the football team.
Speaker 2: Everything's fine. Will gives in to the kids and says
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a brittany performance at the PEP rally.
Speaker 2: At the homegoing pep rally and he is like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to perform with you, which is not great news
Speaker 2: for anybody in the glee club. They're not super stoked
Speaker 2: about that. And Sue has been trying to make sure
Speaker 2: that Britney Spears music will not be done in glee club.
Speaker 2: She's very against it. And when we get to the
Speaker 2: pep rally, Lauren Potter finds out what we are doing
Speaker 2: Britney Spears, so Sue makes sure that Lauren Potter Becky
Speaker 2: is on high alert. If they need to personally arrest anyone,
Speaker 2: they can do it. And we start doing this weird,
Speaker 2: weird number.
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite Britney song to begin with talk
Speaker 1: really yeah, I don't know, I don't love it, and
Speaker 1: then I definitely don't.
Speaker 2: Love this number is strange.
Speaker 1: It makes me so uncomfortable, and mister Shoe, of course
Speaker 1: wants to dance with us.
Speaker 2: Like Joanie's highly provocative number. Is it even that provocative?
Speaker 1: We're humping hats, it gets it gets there, it gets there,
Speaker 1: mister Shoe's pushing girls down. It's weird. It gets a
Speaker 1: little teacher student strength. But the crowd is loving this
Speaker 1: and Jacob and Israel at the helm, and Lauren's ic
Speaker 1: is also are actually think are like going for it,
Speaker 1: and Jacob and Isel's just Usman is very funny in
Speaker 1: the scene. And then there's literally a riot that breaks
Speaker 1: out because sex riot Josh Jacob and Adela hits somebody
Speaker 1: in front of him and then he punches him and
Speaker 1: everybody goes down, and Jane says, it's.
Speaker 3: A Britney's Yours spears sex right.
Speaker 2: The delivery is and then she pulls the fire alarm
Speaker 2: and then ends up in a neck brace in the
Speaker 2: next scene.
Speaker 1: And that's where she talks about which we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, the Jacob and Israel of it all, and
Speaker 1: and that's really that, that's really the.
Speaker 2: So at the end of the episode, we've finished the
Speaker 2: Britney Spears of it All and Rachel does this really
Speaker 2: beautiful rendition of the only exception by Paramore by not me,
Speaker 2: and it's a great version, and it is also like.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 2: It's very weird. This episode was weird. I have to say,
Speaker 2: looking back at it, I didn't love it as much
Speaker 2: as I remember I did before. Oh really, I think
Speaker 2: because like nothing's happening and I think the show for
Speaker 2: me was at its best when it's not just to
Speaker 2: music for music's sake, I know, but it's I know,
Speaker 2: and everyone was great. Everyone got to shine. And I
Speaker 2: remember originally watching it in that theater at Jeff's house,
Speaker 2: thinking this episode's amazing, And I remember I remember John
Speaker 2: Stam was being very confused about what we had just watched.
Speaker 2: He's like, was that O ka? Was that episode good? Like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is great. But I do think it was a strange,
Speaker 2: strange episode. But I did love getting to watch everybody perform,
Speaker 2: you know, and that's sort of our episode. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's Brittany, Brittany.
Speaker 1: Let's do some tarty takes.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Cringe moment.
Speaker 1: Jenna Jacob Bringer is real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, Josh Desmond was great, but he was he
Speaker 5: was weird, weird, weird, weird. Worst to dance move non
Speaker 5: toxic was weird.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, not a worst dance move, but like
Speaker 2: creepy and made me feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: And the best dance was sleep for You. I think
Speaker 6: just Heather, Yeah, exactly, absolutely best song. Oh i'd say slave,
Speaker 6: I say slave too. I know it's not Brittany, but
Speaker 6: I do think Only Exception was also great? Yeah, big
Speaker 6: fan of that.
Speaker 1: And the best performance by a prop. I think the snake.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely the snake.
Speaker 1: Best line. I I know it's very uncomfortable and I
Speaker 1: don't I called it the cringe moment, but when sus says,
Speaker 1: I want you to feel the beads that you're going
Speaker 1: sweaty to pray to stang dripping down your butt crack,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, we went there and it's very funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, that was she had she was. She
Speaker 2: was not in the episode a lot, but she said
Speaker 2: some crazy ass shit, per usual, and it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Always always, always, and uh, that's that's it. Those are
Speaker 1: our chartie takes, Jenna. Yeah, should we found on TikTok
Speaker 1: this week? Okay, there's an part one of six they
Speaker 1: broke down Niata student on TikTok when the cast some
Speaker 1: of us went on to drop the mic, okay and
Speaker 1: just uploading us roasting each other on drop the mic,
Speaker 1: and so someone commented, it's giving Hamilton, which is hilarious.
Speaker 2: And I loved doing this. Do you remember when we
Speaker 2: got to do that and go on there?
Speaker 1: I was very nervous because I'm not a rapper, so
Speaker 1: this was a very nervous number. I was a nervous nelly.
Speaker 1: But it was really fun to do and it was
Speaker 1: fun to see everybody after all that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and get to do something music related together totally.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, go on Out of Students
Speaker 2: TikTok and watch those clips. They uploaded them all separately,
Speaker 2: but we're all roasting each other because that's what we
Speaker 2: would do in real life.
Speaker 1: Anyway, exactly, all all out of love.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love this one. Thanks for talking us in it.
Speaker 2: It's good to walk down memory lane. You loved it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. For Brittany, I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: all of our memories of this one.
Speaker 2: And we love you Britney Spears. Thanks for coming on
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 1: We love you, Brittany. That's what you really missed.
Speaker 2: Damn it, you stole it. See you next week for
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