Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, And that's where you're really in this podcast,
Speaker 1: Parma Dish. This is so fun.
Speaker 2: This is the high school moment of all high school moments.
Speaker 2: Everything leads to junior prom. Like it says in one
Speaker 2: of the scenes, you can only go to junior junior
Speaker 2: problem once.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a ton of times. Did you have
Speaker 1: a junior problem?
Speaker 2: No. I went to this high school that was at
Speaker 2: a community college and a junior and senior year, and
Speaker 2: there were like seventy kids in my class, so there
Speaker 2: weren't any extracurricular sad activities. Yeah, we were in those
Speaker 2: like portable buildings behind the college. So I think we
Speaker 2: did convince some senior year to throw some sort of
Speaker 2: like formal ish, but that was as close as I got.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yes, I never went to a prom.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you didn't really miss that. No.
Speaker 2: I had several problems on Glee.
Speaker 1: The build up and the anticipation were also way more.
Speaker 1: The stakes were much higher than the actual problems themselves
Speaker 1: in real life.
Speaker 2: To be I also think that the pressure of figuring
Speaker 2: out if you weren't in a relationship. Figuring out who
Speaker 2: you're girling with terrible sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a way for kids to feel left out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know in high school you need more
Speaker 2: reasons to feel left out.
Speaker 1: Exactly. That's what you're missing exactly. Okay, so there's some
Speaker 1: stuff that happened in the world. But before I do that,
Speaker 1: this is episode twenty Kevin of season two, and the
Speaker 1: air day was May tenth, twenty eleven, and each was
Speaker 1: still the number one song. We need to get off there.
Speaker 2: It's a great Now, let me tell you this is
Speaker 2: I believe her biggest song.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. That is not true, and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be true. I think it's this and dark Horse
Speaker 1: are her biggest song. Stupid those dude that I hate the.
Speaker 2: Same dark Horse. I think it is her biggest song.
Speaker 1: No, you stop right now.
Speaker 2: I think this is her longest running one at number one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pretty insane.
Speaker 1: Of all the Katie Fairy songs. Okay, so cratty, Okay,
Speaker 1: there is this is a moment. I have seen the
Speaker 1: number one movie for the first time. Damn, it's the
Speaker 1: It's such a good movie. What a great film, and
Speaker 1: what a great trilogy of films to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you seen all the Thorn movies?
Speaker 1: Hell? Yeah, I didn't know you were a Thor girl
Speaker 1: like that. I'm a Marvel girl. So if we have
Speaker 1: by default, if there's nothing on it and it's not
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, we're putting on a Marvel movie. Really, oh always. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we watched a lot of Marvel, a lot of Avengers
Speaker 1: because they're just so easy to watch. You can just
Speaker 1: put any more end game. I don't love Age of
Speaker 1: Ultront as much. Don't tell, but I yeah, we watch
Speaker 1: a lot of Marvel. Okay, this week? May sixteen, thoughts
Speaker 1: nown that Glee Season three was a part of their
Speaker 1: eleven and twelve fall and spring programming. The Upfronts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got picked up Surprise, Surprise, and this is the
Speaker 1: Upfronts in New York City, which was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite times of the year. We would go to New
Speaker 1: York City in May and you basically parade yourself around
Speaker 1: first advertisers to buy a third out Fronts so no
Speaker 1: longer had to perform. Darren performed with the Warbler. Is
Speaker 1: that right? This is our third one?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At this point, you us women learned that you can
Speaker 1: have a costume change, so you go to the upfronts
Speaker 1: and then after that you change for the party for
Speaker 1: the red carpet. So I did have two outfits in
Speaker 1: this one. And I'm trying to remember the actress's name.
Speaker 1: She I think she was on New Girl or something
Speaker 1: was actually in the same dress as me. Or I
Speaker 1: was in the same dress as you dress. Uh huh
Speaker 1: the for the first party.
Speaker 2: It looks like that dress that people can't tell what
Speaker 2: color it is.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is the blue and white or the other anyway,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad I changed so we weren't wearing the
Speaker 1: same dress the whole night. I love the upfronts. It
Speaker 1: was just a party and I have a fun, fun
Speaker 1: time in New York City for free.
Speaker 2: We made a lot of memories at all these upfronts.
Speaker 2: That's why there was a lot of like schmoozing and
Speaker 2: shaking hands going on. But then we all got very rity.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, and I like, honestly, a free trip to
Speaker 1: New York City to see my family in like you
Speaker 1: flew first class, because that's that was just the way
Speaker 1: back then. It's really special. I missed first class.
Speaker 2: You gotta treat yourself. Jenna like, well, it's better when
Speaker 2: you're not paying for it obviously expensive these days inflation.
Speaker 2: So our prom episodes, we've talked about how our editor
Speaker 2: then director Brad Beeker ended up directing most of the
Speaker 2: competition episodes. Eric Stolts because he did such a good
Speaker 2: job with this one. I feel like he always did
Speaker 2: the prom.
Speaker 1: Episodes, always got prom Yeah, he was efficient, he got
Speaker 1: it done. But I was actually talking to one of
Speaker 1: the background actors, like the recurring background actors today the strike,
Speaker 1: and they are saying how Eric was the one of
Speaker 1: the only directors that actually gave the background actress direction.
Speaker 2: Is what you said?
Speaker 1: And you're right, yeah, and he really And so Eric
Speaker 1: always sid there was always interesting things going on and
Speaker 1: prom everywhere you looked on camera.
Speaker 2: It felt so much like an eighties teen movie in
Speaker 2: that way where it felt real, it felt and no
Speaker 2: matter what scene was going on in the school at
Speaker 2: that time, it felt energized because of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well Eric was born in the eighties scene,
Speaker 1: you know all those moves. Tell me about the music
Speaker 1: in this episode, Kemp.
Speaker 2: Some wild music. It is quite a collection. So rolling
Speaker 2: in the Deep, isn't she lovely? Friday Jar of hearts.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance
Speaker 2: with you and dancing queen.
Speaker 1: And some of them back to back, which is dialogue.
Speaker 2: I liked it. It felt like a little concert. It
Speaker 2: reminded me of all my favorite sort of like teen
Speaker 2: and kids movies that have concerts and them hm hmm,
Speaker 2: you know where they just sort of go back to back,
Speaker 2: like Grease had all those numbers and all those like you,
Speaker 2: I felt special like that.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I didn't remember Rolling in the Deep
Speaker 2: happening in this episode. Same, I didn't know she Lovely
Speaker 2: was in the prom episode.
Speaker 1: I remember that one, but I didn't remember Rolling in
Speaker 1: the Deep. That Jesse came back for this episode. That
Speaker 1: was a surprise.
Speaker 2: That was we'll talk about it. That was hilarious and weird,
Speaker 2: very strange, very strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a hodgepotch, but we're all it's all
Speaker 1: encompassing prompts. It's in anti a patient for prom.
Speaker 2: Also countdown to another competition. We're only three weeks away,
Speaker 2: and so you know, we can't be too distracted with
Speaker 2: prom but it helps us make money. Should we talk
Speaker 2: about some crazy fun facts that happened.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, so many things.
Speaker 2: Remind us of what happened because there was okay, real
Speaker 2: life drama.
Speaker 1: Well let's first, I'd like to say that although New
Speaker 1: Directions was supposed to perform at prom, everybody Mike, Finn, Quinn, Lauren,
Speaker 1: Kurt All didn't perform a prom and Bert. This is
Speaker 1: Burt Holmo's last appearances as a series regular. He will
Speaker 1: become recur for the rest of the show, which is
Speaker 1: confusing to me. Crazy, but I think there were new
Speaker 1: cast members coming in and so they had to do
Speaker 1: some pumping. Okayet the big thing of this episode. And
Speaker 1: I was talking to Max Adler about this episode and
Speaker 1: he was like, oh my gosh, do you remember the leak?
Speaker 1: The leak Kevin? So there wasn't an extra on set?
Speaker 1: Who was at prom? Who then leaked? Who won prom?
Speaker 1: King and Queen of this episode spoiler alert, it's a
Speaker 1: big surprise. It was a big It was a non
Speaker 1: we were not expecting this reveal. There was a twist
Speaker 1: and the twist was leaked and then I remember this,
Speaker 1: and I remember everybody being pretty upset about this because
Speaker 1: this is like the beginning of social media, right, this
Speaker 1: is the beginning of the issue, like people having phones
Speaker 1: and being able to reach fans in a different way.
Speaker 1: And Brad Fouchuck clapped back pretty hard at this extra.
Speaker 2: If you don't know Brad, it takes a lot to
Speaker 2: kiss him off. Yeah, he is like the most easygoing,
Speaker 2: level headed person.
Speaker 1: And if I think about this, then we asked Brad.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask Brad, but I was. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: like why or how or what made him like tick
Speaker 1: with this? But his response was very protective. It was
Speaker 1: basically saying that there's a lot of hundreds of people
Speaker 1: who worked so hard to get this story made, and
Speaker 1: this episode made for one person to ruin it all
Speaker 1: for this for millions of people, it's so unfair, and
Speaker 1: it did it like stung because it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not your story to tell, uh huh.
Speaker 1: And so he the actually didn't end up apologizing. But
Speaker 1: you know, act before I think before you act.
Speaker 2: Can Yeah, you show up to set. There's like a
Speaker 2: code of conduct and professional tons of background actors every
Speaker 2: single day, tons and these things never leaked ever.
Speaker 1: And so tell you that that I watched the problem,
Speaker 1: watching the prom episode and all these bird eye views
Speaker 1: like shots that Eric did. There were so many extras, there.
Speaker 2: So many people, Yeah, in every shot a lot, but
Speaker 2: I love that. It just makes it feel so. I
Speaker 2: mean that room was so hot, being that gymnasium was
Speaker 2: so gross.
Speaker 1: And how many days were were we there?
Speaker 2: I agree, Oh yeah, I think so, and it was great,
Speaker 2: Like we would they would set up base camp sort
Speaker 2: of near this football field parking lot thing and we
Speaker 2: would have lounge chairs and some of us would sit
Speaker 2: out there and tan, oh my god, you're right because
Speaker 2: the prom is so actioned off where if you're not
Speaker 2: in the shot, it's not like if you're on the
Speaker 2: other side of the camera, you don't have to go
Speaker 2: in to do that because there's so many people in
Speaker 2: every single shot. So like when you're when Jenna was
Speaker 2: talking about how it's performance after performance. If you're to
Speaker 2: end the performance, go have fun. Eric Stolts was very
Speaker 2: much about what we're making our day and when you
Speaker 2: needed to be there. Story wise you were there, but otherwise.
Speaker 1: You were out. Yeah, like the Jesse Finn fight, like
Speaker 1: none of us were there. Well, maybe we were there
Speaker 1: in the turnaround because we all had to react, but anyway,
Speaker 1: other than that, Well said Kevin.
Speaker 2: Do you remember your fittings for this? The prom? Looks
Speaker 2: that was like a big thing, very exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I was always scared because Tina's wardrobe is
Speaker 1: Craig Gray, so it was always something really crazy. As
Speaker 1: we get into later seasons, I feel like I had
Speaker 1: more of a say. And then Tina's prom queen look
Speaker 1: in the carry prom that we had. I loved that one,
Speaker 1: but this one was very Tina, like, very down the line,
Speaker 1: very obvious Tina, with like the gnatting and everything. Did
Speaker 1: you like your prom outfits?
Speaker 2: I did. I was very excited about it. If I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, I believe this, like seventies red tucks was
Speaker 2: a Donnie Osmond outfit.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's funny.
Speaker 2: I feel I don't think I'm making that up. I
Speaker 2: think that's right now, that's right. It looks right like
Speaker 2: they used it for something. It was something like that,
Speaker 2: and I was very excited because it was not a sweater.
Speaker 2: For some reason. They curled my hair just the top
Speaker 2: of my hair, like my hair remember so straight, and
Speaker 2: it was pretty long on the side, so I had
Speaker 2: all these weird curls on top and then straight straight
Speaker 2: hair all around the rest.
Speaker 1: Of it, you know you were getting crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alreadie was dressing up, so we talked.
Speaker 1: About Brittany's look problem look her lime green and then
Speaker 1: the tiniest hat ever. Hat.
Speaker 2: All I thought about was RuPaul saying, it's a hat
Speaker 2: on a hat. She wasn't but I just kept thinking
Speaker 2: of drag Race. But looks like a hat. Somebody wearing
Speaker 2: drag Race.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 2: And the crew dressed up. The crew started dressing up
Speaker 2: in this problem.
Speaker 1: So this one, I think Eric came in his ruffel
Speaker 1: powder suit. Yes, And that was always fun for them
Speaker 1: and for us to like see.
Speaker 2: Them living up the day. The crew obviously is there
Speaker 2: a long time, and it just made it feel so
Speaker 2: special and fun. Everybody looked so good and it was
Speaker 2: cute and in between setups people were dancing and sad.
Speaker 1: Note do you remember when Brad Beaker started wearing wigs
Speaker 1: to work?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Especially in like late nights and competitions wigs to like
Speaker 1: he started He kept doing that on like Horror Story.
Speaker 1: When I shadowed him, he would bring the wag out
Speaker 1: and it was like just to remind yourself to like
Speaker 1: not take things so seriously. He would say so anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that at sometimes.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's junior prom at McKinley Figgins asked the
Speaker 2: League of to perform, while Quinn, Santana, and Lawrence also
Speaker 2: have their eye on the prom Queen Crown because this
Speaker 2: episode is named Prom Queen after all. Rachel, Mercedes, and
Speaker 2: Sam have a plan to attend prompt together, while Kurt
Speaker 2: asks Blain to be his date, and Artie is trying
Speaker 2: to win back Brittany. And plus surprise, Jesse Saint James
Speaker 2: comes back out of nowhere. I mean, for some hilarity,
Speaker 2: I might.
Speaker 1: Add, I don't remember John Graff coming back. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I do now after watching it, but I did
Speaker 1: not remember him coming back.
Speaker 2: I think, just to clarify, for these prom episodes, I
Speaker 2: have my memories of them. I remember all the parts.
Speaker 2: I don't remember which prom is which. Yes, so I
Speaker 2: wasn't sure which prom was one direction, which problem was Friday,
Speaker 2: which prom was Red Tucks, and so this episode really,
Speaker 2: obviously it was necessary to help reorganize the memories.
Speaker 1: I remember by the outfits, always by the outfits. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I feel like for this episode too,
Speaker 2: that's everything leading up to prom, and then it's Prom
Speaker 2: because everything's so intertwined. So a lot's happening leading up
Speaker 2: to Prom, and air supply canceled, and Bigin says he
Speaker 2: can use the four hundred dollars he's going to pay
Speaker 2: them to give the new directions to perform because Will
Speaker 2: doesn't want to do it because they have nationals in
Speaker 2: three weeks, but the money is money and they need it.
Speaker 2: And Susan on the prom committee and of course thinks
Speaker 2: it's a terrible idea and then starts listing off the
Speaker 2: songs that she doesn't want and it's pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1: Number one being.
Speaker 2: Run, Joey Run, and then the match the hair mashup,
Speaker 2: which fair I think those were probably the most talked
Speaker 2: about as to like, are why why were those done?
Speaker 1: That is the question, all right. So the glee club
Speaker 1: gets together, Will's telling them they're going to perform it
Speaker 1: prom and Mercedes Uh basically ups and leaves the choir
Speaker 1: room because she doesn't have a date for prom, and
Speaker 1: Rachel follows her, which is like, kind of I'm surprised
Speaker 1: by it, but Rachel follows her out and Mercedes tells
Speaker 1: her that she just kind of she wants to be
Speaker 1: wined and I and feel beautiful and be told and
Speaker 1: go to a problem with somebody. So Rachel has his
Speaker 1: plan that since she doesn't have a date as well,
Speaker 1: they're going to ask Sam to go to a prom
Speaker 1: with them on a good will budget.
Speaker 2: It's such a cute. This whole plan is so cute
Speaker 2: and so redeeming for all the crazy shit Rachel says
Speaker 2: and does. This is really sweet.
Speaker 1: This is really sweet. So they give Sam alone to
Speaker 1: get a tux and they're going to get dresses and anyways,
Speaker 1: it's a cute little trio. Because it is super expensive
Speaker 1: to go to prom, that's the thing. It's like, I
Speaker 1: remember wearing my sweet sixteen dress, which is also a
Speaker 1: very expensive mini wedding essentially that you have a big
Speaker 1: party wing you turn sixteen. It's crazy, And I use
Speaker 1: that dress for junior prom because they're not buying you
Speaker 1: another four hundred dollars fair enough. Yeah, the dresses were
Speaker 1: a thing, Like I remember when I went to my
Speaker 1: dress at this like store, they would write down what
Speaker 1: school and what dress so that two girls wouldn't show
Speaker 1: up in the same dress. So if you picked out
Speaker 1: a dress that somebody else picked out. They'd be like,
Speaker 1: just you know, blah blah blah bought this dress as well.
Speaker 2: So serious, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's just high stakes. It's that high school thing that
Speaker 1: we talked about though, you know where it's like all
Speaker 1: these minuscule things feel like so high stakes.
Speaker 2: I felt so bad. I went to two formals like
Speaker 2: winter formals, and felt so bad asking my parents to
Speaker 2: like rinds of tucks, like all this shit is so
Speaker 2: expensive and people could do the colms.
Speaker 1: I just can't. It's too much. It's all too much.
Speaker 2: That's why it was so sweet. They're like, we're going
Speaker 2: to go to Goodwill, We'll walk to prom, We're going
Speaker 2: to go to.
Speaker 1: The pasta special breadsticks.
Speaker 2: It's really sweet, big fan, I have so many questions
Speaker 2: about the scene with Rachel practicing for prom doing a song.
Speaker 2: She doesn't end up doing it prom.
Speaker 1: Right, well, obviously because they perform it there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's rolling in the deep.
Speaker 2: She's rolling in the deep and Jesse Saint James comes
Speaker 2: in halfway through the first verse out of nowhere at
Speaker 2: the back of the theater. But even more surprising are
Speaker 2: all the kids painty and gluing and building the set
Speaker 2: on the stage, start doing these beautiful backgrounds.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why they needed them, They needed these people.
Speaker 1: It's very strange. I bet you that was an Eric
Speaker 1: Stultz move as well, being like I hear the track,
Speaker 1: there's people here, they need to be here.
Speaker 2: But it's just like, oh so everyone can sing in
Speaker 2: beautiful like three part harmony at this school.
Speaker 1: Off the cuff because she's like, I'm about to rehearse,
Speaker 1: just let me know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you said, why are we in the glee club?
Speaker 2: They sound better than we do.
Speaker 1: It's true, isn't the glee club supposed to be? Right?
Speaker 1: It was very weird, all right. So Jesse comes back
Speaker 1: because he's swunk out of college. Funny he didn't know
Speaker 1: that he had to go to classes because he was
Speaker 1: majoring in show choir.
Speaker 2: Q racist Asian joke.
Speaker 1: Well that's not the first and it won't be the last.
Speaker 1: So so Jesse's back and he's going to go to
Speaker 1: prop with Rachel, and he's going to go with the court.
Speaker 1: He's going to be the quartet, yes, with Rachel and
Speaker 1: Mercedes and Sam foreshadowing for Mercedes and Sam, Sam sadies
Speaker 1: and then Finn says he doesn't trust him and obviously
Speaker 1: that he still cares about Rachel, and she just says,
Speaker 1: you got to be supportive of me, and she's going
Speaker 1: to be supportive of him and Quinn. And then Finn
Speaker 1: gets a nice corsage for Quinn and listens to Rachel's advice.
Speaker 2: Anyway, most importantly is the scene when they all meet
Speaker 2: up at bread Sticks.
Speaker 1: I'm we loved bread Sticks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this little like back and forth between Finn
Speaker 2: and Jesse is really great.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 2: I wish there was more of that, honestly, just these
Speaker 2: like quick one liners insulting each other between them. We
Speaker 2: get it from other characters a lot, right, but Finn
Speaker 2: doesn't do that right.
Speaker 1: And also like a little love triangle, yeah or yeah,
Speaker 1: a love triangle.
Speaker 2: Everybody loves everybody. It's very confusing.
Speaker 1: So Kurt is going to ask Blaine to go a
Speaker 1: problem with him, but Blaine is worried. Blaine is worried
Speaker 1: because he had a bad experience at Dalton with the
Speaker 1: Citie Hawkins stands, and so before oh really, yes, right,
Speaker 1: because don't do that. There's zero tolerance zero Yeah. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, even when I watch it, I still don't know.
Speaker 2: No immedia literacy is hard.
Speaker 1: It's the school that he attended before A d Alton,
Speaker 1: and he's nervous. But Kurt obviously says like this, this
Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable. We're not going to do it. But
Speaker 1: they go They're going to go to a prom together.
Speaker 1: It's very cute.
Speaker 2: That was also very understanding and the impetus for him
Speaker 2: agreeing to go, you know, yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: And then Blaine and Finn Bird have this really cute
Speaker 1: scene were Kurt is showing them his promo outfit and Bird,
Speaker 1: of course being Bird, is like, look, I want you
Speaker 1: to be whoever you want to be, but I just
Speaker 1: think you're you're calling You're calling attention to yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like asking for it too, yeah, And Blaine's like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to ask for anything else, especially from
Speaker 1: what I've been through. It's a kilt by the way.
Speaker 1: It's very cute, and Finn says he thinks it's awesome,
Speaker 1: like a Gape Ray part. But this is nice because
Speaker 1: you get to see Kurt actually feeling confident and like
Speaker 1: coming into himself in a way where he's not backing
Speaker 1: down and he's going to do it and he's gonna
Speaker 1: wear this outfit, and I just I like seeing Kurt's
Speaker 1: confidence and I feel like that's a big part is
Speaker 1: because of Blaine.
Speaker 2: And I think it's also like a fair and realistic
Speaker 2: question to ask, isn't it to bring up of what
Speaker 2: is going to be the reaction for your safety?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Well, and speaking of safety, Santanah it's going
Speaker 1: to protect him with a full security detail from the
Speaker 1: bully whips.
Speaker 2: Which is so cute, and her talking so loudly. I mean,
Speaker 2: she doesn't really care about the safety. She likes how
Speaker 2: it looks for her chances at prom Queen.
Speaker 1: Of course. But Krowsky does take it seriously.
Speaker 2: Krowsky here breaks down and cries, Yeah, and profusely, you know,
Speaker 2: admits how apologizes and how bad he feels for treating
Speaker 2: Kurt so terribly. But he's in public, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: the scene is happening as the bell rings and people
Speaker 2: are going into class.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's also it's like, bro, oh, you're so worried
Speaker 1: about all this that you're crying in the hallway. I
Speaker 1: was thinking that, and normally Eric will be wary of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they'd be like whispering. So I feel like there
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of people in the hallway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think. I think a bell sounded and
Speaker 2: then people sort it dispersed while it was happening. Okay,
Speaker 2: but it was a really it's still a scene. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's amazing to it's a testament to Eric the
Speaker 2: writing and the two of him of how quickly the
Speaker 2: narrative can change. That's a it's a quick scene. It's
Speaker 2: in just a couple of lines. They've sort of amended,
Speaker 2: you know, mended their relationship.
Speaker 1: Right, well a bit, No, I agree, And I think
Speaker 1: it's it's nice, especially like the historyline that Crofts He's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I just genuinely like it's the nicest see
Speaker 1: a care character with like this really good arc. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's very touching and real, and I just
Speaker 1: felt so bad for him for a Krofsky when he
Speaker 1: was like crying like that, that he felt so bad
Speaker 1: the way he treated Kurt. That on you, Max Adler,
Speaker 1: Good on your teen Gay.
Speaker 2: You may now proceed to the next checkpoint. I would
Speaker 2: like to keep track of Santana line. I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like when we get to the end, it's just
Speaker 2: going to be Santana one liners because she says some
Speaker 2: crazy shit, really good, really good stuff. Okay, the last
Speaker 2: pre prom date stuff is already in puck Mmmm. Puck
Speaker 2: tries to enlist Artie's help in spiking the punch to
Speaker 2: keep his bad reputation because he's been dating Lauren and
Speaker 2: running for prom king and there's sort of a underground
Speaker 2: prom king that he wants and he's like Alreatie says
Speaker 2: no because he's trying to get Britney back because he
Speaker 2: doesn't have a date to prom and he feels really
Speaker 2: bad about calling her stupid, as he should, so he
Speaker 2: It was into Home Mech. I also wish we saw
Speaker 2: more of Home Mech because that class looked fun. All
Speaker 2: of you were in it, really great stuff. Artie sayings,
Speaker 2: isn't she lovely? In fact, gets excited about a proposal,
Speaker 2: all of you playing your little instruments in it. It
Speaker 2: was really adorable.
Speaker 1: It was very cute. I felt involved instead of just
Speaker 1: standing there watching you. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone had like a little something to do. It
Speaker 2: was cute and it felt like a good promposal, a
Speaker 2: more realistic proposal.
Speaker 1: Well there's a lot, yeah, because proposals are a thing.
Speaker 2: Hey, totally yeah, And I gotta say, I gotta hand
Speaker 2: it to Brittany, because Britney stands a ground and says, no.
Speaker 1: Well you know what you really did at this time?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know. I don't see how you
Speaker 2: come back from that, you don't. It seemed like it
Speaker 2: was on both of their parts, him accepting to know,
Speaker 2: her saying no. It felt very mature.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And also just Brittany being solo a prom
Speaker 1: is very funny, Yes, very very funny. Did you like singing?
Speaker 1: Isn't she lovely? Did you like recording it? Do you
Speaker 1: have any memories from it? See?
Speaker 2: This is another like acoustic song and the whole thing
Speaker 2: being acapella. The first third of it being a cappella
Speaker 2: was so nerve racking. It's Stevie Wonder. Yeah, like was
Speaker 2: not No, nobody wants to sing Stevie Wonder because nobody
Speaker 2: can do that. But and I loved the version because
Speaker 2: it wasn't trying to really be Stevie Wonder version. I
Speaker 2: felt like a really special scene in moment. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I ended up being one of my favorites. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: really do like it. And you we've sung it places together.
Speaker 1: That's right. Your vocals vocal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never knew the lyrics. It's hard to remember lyrics.
Speaker 2: It's okay. Yeah, and it is about a baby.
Speaker 1: Hmm, you just about a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very sweet. Let's get to prompt.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: So there's that breadsticks moment with a run in between
Speaker 2: every the foursome and Jesse and Rachel. Also Rachel's line of.
Speaker 1: Talk.
Speaker 2: Jesse talking about the recession again. Here's the second episode
Speaker 2: addressing the recession? What's going on? And he's so smart.
Speaker 2: I can't believe he flunked out of college. I loved it.
Speaker 1: He loved it. I loved it. So then you guys
Speaker 1: perform Friday, we sure do man, and you get the
Speaker 1: crowd going, yeah. Uh, I gotta tell you this song
Speaker 1: is a weird one. Obviously, we know this a confusing number,
Speaker 1: a confusing song in general. But you the way you
Speaker 1: guys do it is very charming and very cute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like you guys had a good time doing
Speaker 1: this on tour. Did you have a good time doing
Speaker 1: this at prop?
Speaker 2: I had more fun doing it at prom than on tour.
Speaker 2: Actually it felt I think I was like overly precious
Speaker 2: about the show, and you forget the satire. And I
Speaker 2: think with success and the song's doing well, caring about
Speaker 2: how you sound and think you're always gonna sound good.
Speaker 2: They make you sound good no matter what. They get
Speaker 2: the best vocal out of you. But I felt like,
Speaker 2: this is so silly that we're doing this song. It
Speaker 2: felt wrong. Oh that's interesting, but I just think I
Speaker 2: was totally over precious about the whole thing. Watching it,
Speaker 2: I think it totally works, makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 2: and everybody was super into it and of course high
Speaker 2: school students would enjoy this, right, I was being way
Speaker 2: too serious.
Speaker 1: Right, I yeah, And I think like it makes sense
Speaker 1: watching it back because it's it's it was something so viral. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's Ryan's thing, you know. He takes pop culture
Speaker 1: and he like turns on his head and makes it
Speaker 1: work in the show. Apparently in the behind the scenes
Speaker 1: interviews for this for prom Mark suggested this, which it
Speaker 1: seems right. And then apparently Mark and Court also did
Speaker 1: up the choreography for this. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: I don't remember it, but that all feels right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely feels right. And also you're wrapping, you're
Speaker 1: rapping again.
Speaker 2: That rap is crazy, absolutely insane. It makes no sense. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: doing this on tour was a total mess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that. What's the deal. It was thrown
Speaker 3: it, it was added right, and then it was up to
Speaker 3: us to sort of figure it out because there was
Speaker 3: no choreography or anything, and so it was Cord and
Speaker 3: Mark playing it live on their guitars.
Speaker 1: There were.
Speaker 2: No one was keeping time. They would start playing at
Speaker 2: different rhythms were We didn't really practice it that much.
Speaker 2: It was just a mess, and I felt so embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I have nothing really to do with the song. It
Speaker 2: was more of these people came here to see a show,
Speaker 2: and we're putting on this, right it felt.
Speaker 1: Did you guys continue to do it?
Speaker 2: Did you cut it? No, it got cut at some point.
Speaker 2: It needed to. It sounded we sounded like dying CAATs. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was bad. Apologies if you saw it. I have
Speaker 2: no explanation. It just didn't. We were worried putting it about,
Speaker 2: you know, putting on the full production of the tour,
Speaker 2: and that was a pure afterthought.
Speaker 1: So I thought, yeah, yeah, I love that. They needed
Speaker 1: more time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we needed to kill time to get you guys.
Speaker 1: To single ladies. Yeah, stage, which was very far away. Okay,
Speaker 1: we digressed, so then we go into oh, okay, so
Speaker 1: then so then you get caught already gets caught. This
Speaker 1: is so fun. Did you have so much fun doing this?
Speaker 1: I was so nervous. It was my first scene with Jane. Oh,
Speaker 1: I would be nervous too, and it was.
Speaker 2: Just us in a dark room and I was trying.
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't laugh. It's just me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: She's the nicest person, but she's also very good. She
Speaker 2: doesn't really mess up. She gets her shipped down. She
Speaker 2: is hilarious. Everything she needs to be, she doesn't. Every
Speaker 2: take is good, you know. And I didn't want to
Speaker 2: be the one dragging the scene down. So it was
Speaker 2: very very fun and I felt like I could just
Speaker 2: try to keep up with her in a way.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. It's very funny. And also her pulling
Speaker 1: out the the dental kit and the gentle cleaning, which
Speaker 1: is like a wrench for a tooth. It was just
Speaker 1: it was all very wild and she's dentist out there.
Speaker 1: For some reason, that scene reminds me of the Bad
Speaker 1: Reputation episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah to the lighting, that dark lighting, and yeah,
Speaker 2: we get another scene. At some point, I don't know
Speaker 2: when it is. That's when she calls me a muppet.
Speaker 2: I thought it was this one.
Speaker 1: Some of her nicknames for you or were out of
Speaker 1: this world.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she called me legs in this one.
Speaker 1: There's something else too, and I was like, oh yeah, pretty,
Speaker 1: and you end up not really puss taking lemonade. You
Speaker 1: put lemonade in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because they felt bad and sweet Artie.
Speaker 1: Artie is an idiot, well sometimes and then he did
Speaker 1: call pretty stupid, so it doesn't you know, sometimes we
Speaker 1: have to think before we speak, Artie.
Speaker 2: He doesn't.
Speaker 1: Kevin, okay, Rachel performs Strive hearts She's clearly singing to
Speaker 1: Finn the whole time.
Speaker 2: It's very uncomfortable and so uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I also will never forget this number, having to make
Speaker 1: it with Harry probably four or five times at three
Speaker 1: minute lengths. Yeah, it was too much.
Speaker 2: Too much. It really takes the you know when people
Speaker 2: ask about intimate scenes, and this is a good example
Speaker 2: of how it's not sexy.
Speaker 1: And like we would be laughing into each other's mouths
Speaker 1: basically while we were kissing, just laughing because we're like,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous and then because you're kissing, you can't
Speaker 1: even look up to see if the camera's on you, because,
Speaker 1: like you know, if you're in the background and the
Speaker 1: cameras turned around somewhere Andrew Mitchell's kind of walking around
Speaker 1: and you're not in it, you don't have to do it.
Speaker 1: But because we couldn't see, we just had to keep kissing.
Speaker 1: Fun back to background. Actors get an extra twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars if they have to kiss some money, And a
Speaker 1: lot of people were kissing, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: were kissing, you know what. Thank you there exults for those.
Speaker 2: I didn't know they got paid more.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like say, essentially yeah, I mean, especially
Speaker 1: now after COVID, it's like they should be getting a
Speaker 1: lot more than that.
Speaker 2: But I'd be so scared to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would.
Speaker 2: It felt it always felt really uncomfortable too, because it's
Speaker 2: here are two strangers clearly making out all day and.
Speaker 1: They yeah, yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: I felt bad. So we have another performance of Blaine,
Speaker 2: Tina and Brittany doing I'm not gonna teach you how
Speaker 2: to how your boyfriend had to dance with you? M random, random,
Speaker 2: but I gotta say, I think it's one of my
Speaker 2: favorite Blaine songs.
Speaker 1: Fun.
Speaker 2: I think his voice. I think it's hard to like
Speaker 2: do this type of I don't know, it's like sing
Speaker 2: songy talkie thing, and he does it very well.
Speaker 1: He does do it very well, and he just really
Speaker 1: got the crowd going. So that was fun. I remember
Speaker 1: being thrown into this number as well, and I let
Speaker 1: you on stage like trying to remember what was happening,
Speaker 1: all the backgrounds and the dancing, and I think we
Speaker 1: were seen in it for about five seconds.
Speaker 2: But you guys go so hard every time it cuts
Speaker 2: to you. You guys are really going for it. Well
Speaker 2: how that just brings out the best and everybody. So
Speaker 2: I loved Heather episodems. Yeah, it's a good episode for Heather.
Speaker 2: And then this fight, oh my god, this brawl and
Speaker 2: just these boys, you know, this toxic masculinity. What are
Speaker 2: we going to do about it?
Speaker 1: To kick them out? Kick them out? They start a
Speaker 1: fight there, the throne punches and Sue kicks them out.
Speaker 1: And then and Queen's obviously very upset because, yeah, her
Speaker 1: her dreams of being a prom queen are destroyed. And
Speaker 1: then we had prom King and Queen that happened they
Speaker 1: announced it, because there's a lot that unfolds.
Speaker 2: Because I never went to prompt? How did this work
Speaker 2: in I r L It didn't. This wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: No, didn't they.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've seen videos of this happening at
Speaker 2: like a on a football field, like.
Speaker 1: The exactly so it's homecoming King and Queen is what
Speaker 1: you're thinking of, which is like basically like to kick
Speaker 1: off the season. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: So there's not a prom King and Queen.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was a holiday hally, like a
Speaker 1: Hollywood thing like never been kissed and ten things a
Speaker 1: hay about you and mean girls like I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys write it Intella's I didn't have a prom
Speaker 1: King and Queen. We had a homecoming King and Queen,
Speaker 1: which is entirely different. It is I feel like, who
Speaker 1: is running for prom King and Queen? Like who cares?
Speaker 2: Interesting?
Speaker 1: But I bet you it did happen in other places. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean it has to be based off something surely,
Speaker 1: or is just made up. I mean it's all made
Speaker 1: up anyway.
Speaker 2: Twist time.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Dave Krofsky is prom king? Do you remember
Speaker 1: this twist I had to know. I had to be
Speaker 1: reminded because I gasped, oh I remember, oh interesting, No, no.
Speaker 1: As soon as it started to unfold in the episode,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I think this is where Kirk
Speaker 1: gets gets dubbed. So Kurt becomes prom queen mm hmm,
Speaker 1: and he runs out embarrassed because he is mortified that
Speaker 1: because they thought they weren't getting made fun of it
Speaker 1: problem that they were winning, and it was actually they
Speaker 1: were playing this mean, sick joke on them.
Speaker 2: And as he says, it's Chris'm not saying it to us.
Speaker 2: This is what people really feel, right, and they're just
Speaker 2: not saying that joke.
Speaker 1: And yeah, man, Chris is just giving us another that scene,
Speaker 1: Golden Globe performance, that.
Speaker 2: Scene is truly incredible, like so deep in.
Speaker 1: It, yes, oh yes, yeah, I felt that one to
Speaker 1: my core.
Speaker 2: Phenomenal, really really good Chris. It's a shame he's not talented, Yeah, shame.
Speaker 1: And and then Quinn is also simultaneously very upset in
Speaker 1: the bathroom, crying and her and Rachel have made an
Speaker 1: epic epic semed together where she slaps the she out
Speaker 1: of her.
Speaker 2: This I did not remember that, like, this might be
Speaker 2: my favorite sequence of the episode because we have Kurt
Speaker 2: having his moment, we have that slap that I also
Speaker 2: did not remember shocking between Rachel and Quinn, and then
Speaker 2: we also have Santana and Britney having their moment. She
Speaker 2: was really upset because crossk like her date one right,
Speaker 2: but she didn't.
Speaker 1: Her line we get.
Speaker 2: To New York, I'm bailing to live in a lesbian
Speaker 2: colony or trybeca.
Speaker 1: Also her asking if she smells like a golf course.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my favorite line.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite one of the episode. Yeah, do I
Speaker 1: smell like a In the editing of having a tier
Speaker 1: and them back to back to back and then also
Speaker 1: having Kurt turn around and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to own this so they don't win, and
Speaker 1: then have Quinn Rachel turn in this beautiful bonding moment
Speaker 1: and we turned around real fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Rachel being like, you know, I didn't mind
Speaker 2: this lap. I like the dramatics.
Speaker 1: It feels very high school, though, which is like some
Speaker 1: of our favorite things where like the stakes feel really high.
Speaker 2: The tone was just nailed in this section. Truly loved it,
Speaker 2: loved it, loved it.
Speaker 1: So Kurt decides to go back in and and get
Speaker 1: his crown and be prideful and proud and show everybody
Speaker 1: that they can't win. And he says, eat your heart out,
Speaker 1: keep Middleton, which is it's funny because Chris loves the Queen,
Speaker 1: or loved the Queen a rest in peace and in
Speaker 1: general right. And Kurt obviously encourages Krofsky to like use
Speaker 1: this moment and come out, but he's not going to
Speaker 1: do it, and he leaves, and so Kurt left on
Speaker 1: the dance far by himself, and then of course Blain
Speaker 1: to the rescue and they dance and it's very so sweet.
Speaker 2: You know what. I also loved about this during all
Speaker 2: of those moments because you could always find the Glee
Speaker 2: Club in the crowd during his speech during that dance,
Speaker 2: and they're not front and center. It always realistic. They're
Speaker 2: there in the crowd in the back wherever and Stilt
Speaker 2: spines them right, and it was really sweet. I did
Speaker 2: not remember Mercedes and Santana doing dancing Queen as a duet. Oh,
Speaker 2: I definitely did I remember this happening, the number happening again.
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like I don't remember anything
Speaker 2: from the show, but I'm confusing the prompts and.
Speaker 1: Right prom rondel prom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, all the proms.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget Dancing Queen because I just did not
Speaker 1: like that song and I was like, please don't make
Speaker 1: me listen to this song. But it was fun to
Speaker 1: watch those gals cheeky, cheekily perform that number in the
Speaker 1: crowd with us, and you could see like Quinn give
Speaker 1: uh Santana a hug, but it's like Diana gibbick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and all we gotta do all those prom photos,
Speaker 2: which was cute and fun.
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of those photos still photos in
Speaker 1: my folders because and A Rose, who took them, who
Speaker 1: was our set photographer, kept them all and sent them
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: So that was the only part that actually felt like
Speaker 2: real prom. Yes, because they'd throw us in there whenever
Speaker 2: they could remember. There were some downtime and then they
Speaker 2: shoot it yeah too. Yeah, that was fun. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of downtime and prom and I'm just realizing now
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, like, oh, yeah, you can sit outside
Speaker 2: and tan during prom. It's because I missed a lot
Speaker 2: of prom because I was in Sue's office, so I
Speaker 2: was tanning outside, right.
Speaker 1: I feel like I had a lot of downtime too, though, yes,
Speaker 1: I really didn't, although doing the Darren song was not
Speaker 1: I didn't have as much jown time as you did. Dan.
Speaker 1: That's right, Okay, that's the prom. That's the first prom
Speaker 1: of many proms to come.
Speaker 2: Prom Queen Queen.
Speaker 1: Should do some tarty takes. Yeah, okay, cringe moments.
Speaker 2: I would say Jesse's line about hiring an Asian student
Speaker 2: to take his classes, or calling Artie legs from Sue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of her nicknames for Artie were inappropriate. They
Speaker 1: were jarring to me. I was like, oh, there's another one.
Speaker 2: It's also knowing Jane, it's still surprising when she says
Speaker 2: something particularly strong because that is so not her right
Speaker 2: best dance with Jenna, Oh.
Speaker 1: My goodness, I gotta say, I think Friday gets the
Speaker 1: takes the cake really well. They made it up themselves.
Speaker 1: They were very proud of that.
Speaker 2: I guess you're right. I also just like the moment
Speaker 2: of Blaine and Kurt dancing together. I guess there's not
Speaker 2: like a dance move, but that's though. It was a
Speaker 2: move to save Kurt from embarrassment.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you did there. Okay, I'll let
Speaker 1: it slide this time. You. Best song, isn't she lovely? Really?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I guess I'll say that too. Okay,
Speaker 2: can I say my own song?
Speaker 1: Yes? Definitely great best performance by a prop Britney's Tiny.
Speaker 2: Hat totally, the tiny hat, Absolutely.
Speaker 1: The best line is our favorite. I think we have
Speaker 1: the same one.
Speaker 2: Yes twice.
Speaker 1: Smell like a golf course.
Speaker 2: I do have to say, and I feel like this
Speaker 2: was an ad lib. But there is a moment when
Speaker 2: they're doing the dress shopping that we didn't even talk about,
Speaker 2: which is.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, this was definitely an outlet.
Speaker 2: When Chris goes go with God Satan Santana, definitely an outlet,
Speaker 2: right that was There's no way.
Speaker 1: Chris loved to add it in a little flare. Yes,
Speaker 1: and when he did, it was always good, very excellent performance. MVP.
Speaker 1: I think Chris colper I would. I would say, Heaven,
Speaker 1: you're right, though, you're right.
Speaker 2: I think they've already spitting some wisdom.
Speaker 1: She actually did have some nuggets this time around.
Speaker 2: She did, okay, are you ready for ship? We found
Speaker 2: a TikTok Jenna, I am ready. Okay, So this is
Speaker 2: from Melly June Puff on TikTok and it's a picture
Speaker 2: of or it's a video of us doing umbrella seeing
Speaker 2: in the rain mashup, and it says how the glee
Speaker 2: club never had enough money for competition, but they had
Speaker 2: money for performances like this, and yet it's so true.
Speaker 2: We talked about it all the time.
Speaker 1: It's so true. We'd always be like, where are we
Speaker 1: supposed to be making our own costumes? Wasn't Mercedes and
Speaker 1: Team like making costumes?
Speaker 2: And like, if you saw the real art department on
Speaker 2: our show, it was a large, very talented group of
Speaker 2: people who put these things together. It's like high school
Speaker 2: students aren't doing this on a shoe string budget, right,
Speaker 2: Absolutely not right. But I mean, if you go look
Speaker 2: at the comments, it's pretty hilarious because someone said, I
Speaker 2: always thought it was supposed to be like what they
Speaker 2: thought it looked like in their heads.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 2: Interesting, And someone said group delusion. That's the only explanation.
Speaker 1: Very heavy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know, I think people will just accept
Speaker 2: it it. Or maybe they were always broke because they
Speaker 2: were spending their money on these weekly performances for an
Speaker 2: empty auditorium.
Speaker 1: No, we just just accept the delusion, an illusion of
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely delusion, illusion, illusion, delusion. Well that's our show.
Speaker 2: I really loved this episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a solid, solid episode, jam packed with
Speaker 1: a lot of entertainment. YEA.
Speaker 2: Heading into next week, which is Funeral, which has some
Speaker 2: great music.
Speaker 1: Well specifically one back to Black, let's just call it, yeah.
Speaker 2: Back to Black. I'm excited to watch this song because
Speaker 2: I have feelings about this episode and I would like
Speaker 2: to see if they're right. Oh interesting, Okay. The other
Speaker 2: thing is is last season, when we got to the end,
Speaker 2: we hit sort of a clunker, remember, and they had
Speaker 2: the funk and theatricality had to be swapped out. So
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, how are we going into the season finale here?
Speaker 2: Are we hitting another clunker or not?
Speaker 1: We might be, We could be, we might be. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well there's the only way. One way to find out
Speaker 1: is to come back next week. Can see?
Speaker 2: Is we like our own show? And that's what you
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