Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.
Speaker 2: And Daphne's Aniga and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Guys, this is the first time we've done like not
Speaker 1: sitting in the same room and we have to wave
Speaker 1: from a distance there a little.
Speaker 3: I know, I got spoiled see you, guys, but this
Speaker 3: is going to be very exciting as an adventuress.
Speaker 1: We'll be in person again.
Speaker 3: We will when we have a guest.
Speaker 1: Hey, I have to ask, are you guys having a
Speaker 1: lot of spiders at your house right now?
Speaker 3: So many spiders.
Speaker 2: Might have so much everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not just my house.
Speaker 3: No, there was an article recently it's an extra crazy
Speaker 3: spider year this year for la Yeah, maybe all the rain.
Speaker 2: I save them all. I put them all in a
Speaker 2: glass with a little envelope and then and sometimes I
Speaker 2: have to do two or three at a time and
Speaker 2: like put it outside. Oh.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, save their lives.
Speaker 1: I don't deserve it, Spiker, Yeah, I don't save them.
Speaker 2: Like for a project later or anything. So David, at
Speaker 2: the end.
Speaker 1: Of the day, did you say an ovelope? You put
Speaker 1: them in an envelope?
Speaker 2: No, I said, I put a glass over it and
Speaker 2: I slide an envelope or piece of paper. I take
Speaker 2: them out, but there are so many that I have
Speaker 2: to do two or three at the time.
Speaker 3: There are so many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm having the kind of like if I'm the
Speaker 1: first person out the door in the morning, like I
Speaker 1: really have to check the door frame so that there's
Speaker 1: not one dangling right in front my face, like mouth
Speaker 1: level that I'm going to walk right into it.
Speaker 3: Right and there looking like like Georgie wanted. Georgie just
Speaker 3: came in. She want to say this, sister. But I
Speaker 3: took him out the other day and they walked through
Speaker 3: a web and she had a huge spider on her head.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a fan, but I'm glad it's not
Speaker 1: just my house because I was literally like this morning,
Speaker 1: like you know, like clearing the doorways before fighter or everywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's yeah, sorry.
Speaker 3: It's not just you. I'll find the article and send
Speaker 3: it to you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I hope the season passes soon because it's
Speaker 1: a little disconcerting to walk, yeah, right into them.
Speaker 2: It's fun to escape it all though the yard. It's
Speaker 2: fun to escape it with our Melrose Place with our gig.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I gotta say, so, this is my second
Speaker 3: time watching this episode because, as you guys know, I
Speaker 3: watched the wrong episode last week because they switch it
Speaker 3: on whatever I'm watching it on, they switch these two episodes.
Speaker 3: It was even better on the second time. I watched
Speaker 3: it again today, just you refresh.
Speaker 2: This is a really solid episode. I totally agree. All
Speaker 2: the stories were like intriguing and juicy, and the relationships
Speaker 2: were really full, and I don't know, I really thought
Speaker 2: it was a solid for everybody, for all the characters,
Speaker 2: you know, real even.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like it's gelling and we're getting very
Speaker 3: close to when you guys come.
Speaker 2: On, very get in there. We're like enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Halfway to Dashney. Things get left up, but we're still
Speaker 1: in this sphace where the episodes are very self contained.
Speaker 1: The storylines are self contained and sort of wrapped up
Speaker 1: near the you know, at the end, the storylines come
Speaker 1: to a little neat conclusion, which is an indication of
Speaker 1: the early tone of the show. Sure so, yeah, so
Speaker 1: we're on Melrose Place, episode number seven.
Speaker 3: Dix. If you're on Amazon, you're very confused.
Speaker 1: To confuse everybody. The title however, is called My Way,
Speaker 1: And this episode opens on a wide open mouth screaming
Speaker 1: a horror movie scream, and we pull out to find
Speaker 1: that we are inside of Sandy's mouth as she's screaming
Speaker 1: lovely teeth I mean, full commitment, and she is in
Speaker 1: the middle of an audition for clearly some sort of
Speaker 1: horror movie where she's required to scream, and there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of people in room, the casting people and the producers,
Speaker 1: and it's super awkward for Sandy.
Speaker 3: And didn't that bring you back to that when they're
Speaker 3: just so disinterested, like they really sued it, disinterested working.
Speaker 1: It was so painful, and like just like that's how
Speaker 1: auditions can be, right, I mean absolutely, And.
Speaker 2: Then she goes, can I do the next scene? And
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, we cut that scene. Yeah, I read it.
Speaker 2: I thought I had a meaty part. No, we got that.
Speaker 1: What they really just wanted is to see how good
Speaker 1: her scream was. And we're going to find out that
Speaker 1: pretty much, they just wanted her to scream well and
Speaker 1: to look good because so blonde. Yeah, so, anyway, auditions
Speaker 1: are humilie. Have you guys ever done a horror movie?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I started with a horror movie. And I have
Speaker 2: a little bit of a story if you give me
Speaker 2: a second. And my first horror film was Paramount, and
Speaker 2: they flew me to Texas where we shot it. It was
Speaker 2: called The Initiation. It took place in of course, a
Speaker 2: sorority horror film. And I remember doing the scene. So
Speaker 2: I was the lead of it. And I when there
Speaker 2: was a shower scene, this like communal shower scene. I
Speaker 2: put on a tube top. I put on like masking tape.
Speaker 2: I wrapped the towel around it. I pretty much think, I,
Speaker 2: you know, safety pinded and clamped it. I was just
Speaker 2: like me in the shower post shower. And there were
Speaker 2: the extras, and then there was this discussion about this
Speaker 2: extra being topless in the back, and I went around
Speaker 2: and I was telling all the girls, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't have to do this. If you don't want to,
Speaker 2: you do not have to do this, like trying to
Speaker 2: talk her out of doing this topless shower scene. I
Speaker 2: wanted to save her dignity. I mean, if Sandy were there,
Speaker 2: I would have been there going, Nope, you don't have
Speaker 2: to do this is my first movie. I don't know
Speaker 2: if she had to do it or not, but just
Speaker 2: felt creepy. So she ended up doing it, I think,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh god, poor thing. And then
Speaker 2: you know, but I was very protective in those early days. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that was my That was one of my first experience
Speaker 2: was that.
Speaker 1: Horror film off of Sandy's Scream. We cut to Billy
Speaker 1: and Allison in the apartment, and Billy is bummed out
Speaker 1: because he tells Alison the paper has gone out of business.
Speaker 1: He's now out of a job. He assumes perhaps lack
Speaker 1: of advertising, and he says, why does the apartment look different.
Speaker 1: Allison reveals that she's been cleaning the apartment, at which
Speaker 1: time Billy panics and he thinks, wait, wait, I had
Speaker 1: something important. Did you throw away a little napkin? And
Speaker 1: she's like, well, yeah, I was cleaning. It looked like junk,
Speaker 1: and he was writing the idea for a short story
Speaker 1: down this cocktail napkin that has now been cleaned and
Speaker 1: thrown away.
Speaker 3: So yes, and Allison does that terrible thing where you
Speaker 3: know I remember reading recently, Be careful of people who
Speaker 3: blame you for a problem they create, like my threw
Speaker 3: it away, and I'm like, well, you shouldn't have written
Speaker 3: it so messily, like Alison, sorry, just say you're sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, he's upset and she's off to work, and
Speaker 1: so as she leaves, the phone rings and it goes
Speaker 1: to the answering machine and it is Billy's mother and
Speaker 1: she's leaving a message saying we're expecting you and Allison
Speaker 1: and Palm Springs, don't forget it's your father's birthday. We're
Speaker 1: expecting as to be there. So from there we go
Speaker 1: to Michael and Jean's apartment and we do sort of
Speaker 1: bring this storyline back where we're they're starting to prepare
Speaker 1: for the baby since Jane is pregnant, and Michael is
Speaker 1: trying to move furniture, trying to measure and find out
Speaker 1: where the best place for the crib might be.
Speaker 3: And being very sweet, like I have to say, right,
Speaker 3: like he's been sort of dismissive, but suddenly now that
Speaker 3: she's pregnant, he's being very sweet and wanting to shape
Speaker 3: very good care of her, which.
Speaker 2: I really so excited and gung ho, Yeah, you're so sweet, so.
Speaker 1: Happy and enthusiastic to figure out a little.
Speaker 2: Overly, so she's not even showing she just found out
Speaker 2: she's pregnant and he's moving furniture to fit the cribbon.
Speaker 3: I know. It's really cute though.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I'm not. I'm not that I can
Speaker 1: move something. I can help. I can, and but he
Speaker 1: goes to try to move the dresser and hurts himself.
Speaker 1: I'm I gotta ask.
Speaker 2: He's moving the.
Speaker 1: Dresser with his hands on the dresser and with his
Speaker 1: upper body, and yet he hurts his ankle and he
Speaker 1: had to rewind it and go back because he hurts
Speaker 1: his ankle so badly that he flings himself on the
Speaker 1: bed and she's like, oh, no, oh, no, you know,
Speaker 1: are you okay? We must go to the hospital. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: that wow, that serious injury. They're off to the hospital
Speaker 1: for this, and I had to rewind it and go
Speaker 1: He didn't even touch.
Speaker 3: His he must have missed step off camp angle.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, maybe the take where he hurt his
Speaker 1: ankle maybe wasn't the take that they used. Maybe yeah, so,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was pretty funny. He was very
Speaker 1: hurt and she was very con and so off they
Speaker 1: go to the hospital to handle this injury. And then
Speaker 1: we cut back to D and D and Billy is
Speaker 1: showing up at Allison's work to bring her flowers to apologize.
Speaker 3: I have to say I was pretty impressed with Alison
Speaker 3: on those phones, like that's so good. I'm not a
Speaker 3: great prop actress, so I was pretty impressed with work
Speaker 3: in this phone.
Speaker 1: It's the apparently you are because you were. I was
Speaker 1: impressed with the same thing you were answering your.
Speaker 2: Talking to him for years you had that were you
Speaker 2: did you get better at it? Was it awkward for you?
Speaker 3: I don't even remember it? So I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: look at me, prop act I was.
Speaker 2: Really, oh, yeah, you like, I'm not as bad as I.
Speaker 1: Thought, because because the hard thing is and people might
Speaker 1: not realize, like nobody's actually talking on the other end
Speaker 1: of the phone, and you as the actress need to
Speaker 1: like fake this phone call like somebody's saying something to
Speaker 1: you in your ear, which they're not. And then also
Speaker 1: the person across the desk, which is Billy, he's talking
Speaker 1: to you and he's presenting flowers. There's a lot going on,
Speaker 1: and you were juggling.
Speaker 2: Pushing the right button, all that whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, which is why I like to not have
Speaker 3: any props and just talk to people while I'm sitting
Speaker 3: down and in this I had a lot going on.
Speaker 1: It was a lot, and you sold it girls, great,
Speaker 1: thank you. We all noticed the very same thing, and
Speaker 1: this is what we sold it better than Michael sold
Speaker 1: break in his ankle. Well, it's yeah, but all these
Speaker 1: things are hard. It's hard to fake an injury too.
Speaker 3: It is true, It's so true.
Speaker 1: Those are tough things. Screaming is hard and so uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So Billy is apologizing and he brings her He says,
Speaker 1: I knew roses were your favorite. However, he's brought carnations
Speaker 1: and but that's where he pops the question of hey,
Speaker 1: you want to go to Palm Springs with me for
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 3: And he does say, they asked me to bring a friend,
Speaker 3: and you're my friend. But even so, like going away
Speaker 3: for a weekend, that's a big step.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love how you guys are again since
Speaker 2: I wasn't there, but I love seeing how this whole
Speaker 2: progression of you guys are still friends, you're still on
Speaker 2: there for just the friends stage. And so he's saying,
Speaker 2: I told him, you know you're a friend, and you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll go as a friend. And you know, this is
Speaker 2: like you can see it all developing and what's going
Speaker 2: on here, which is cool. It's kind of a it's
Speaker 2: a very cool sort of setup for drama.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very sweet, like I can I can see
Speaker 3: the chemistry already.
Speaker 1: It's very so, yeah, you can see where it's headed,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, obviously Billie's said something to his
Speaker 1: parents to have them say, oh, bring Alison, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all very cute and we all are here for it.
Speaker 1: We want to see it happen. So from there we
Speaker 1: go to Shooters where Sandy is serving beers and Jake
Speaker 1: wants to hear about the audition and she's like, not
Speaker 1: optimistic about it at all. Ronda comes in and Sandy
Speaker 1: wants to know if anybody has called, if she got
Speaker 1: any messages, because she's waiting to hear about the audition,
Speaker 1: and Ronda sort of teases he at first and says, no, no,
Speaker 1: nobody called, and then she's like, no except for the
Speaker 1: one message that says you got the bard And they're all.
Speaker 3: Very excited for and don't you feel like Jake is
Speaker 3: really turning it on Like that feels like really intense
Speaker 3: flirting between the two of them.
Speaker 2: To me, I get Yeah. I thought there was a
Speaker 2: lot of juice between them in this episode all the
Speaker 2: way through, which I liked. I like there, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: see as we go on.
Speaker 1: This is the relationship that maybe they're you know, headed towards.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean I was wondering if it was
Speaker 3: Grant and Amy making that choice, if it was in
Speaker 3: the script, like did they choose to play this thing?
Speaker 1: So shooters, uh, Jake and Sandy were noticing there's all
Speaker 1: of a sudden a little flirty vibe with them. Maybe that's,
Speaker 1: you know, a sign of things to come. But we
Speaker 1: find out that Sandy's just gotten this job and that.
Speaker 3: Was a sweet moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Ronda heard it on the voice message.
Speaker 3: They remember answering the answering remember signs, Yes, like you
Speaker 3: couldn't wait to get home to check the answering machine, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, important news would be left on your tape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and you'd have to go home and wait
Speaker 3: to see I remember that so clearly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or like if you the call, you know, like
Speaker 1: it has to be that's the only way to know
Speaker 1: that you missed the call is somebody has to choose
Speaker 1: to leave the message. Yes, and so nice that she
Speaker 1: heard it that way that they left them as a
Speaker 1: john her machine for it. Then from there, Lily and
Speaker 1: Alison are driving to Palm Springs and Billy informs her
Speaker 1: upon arriving that, oh, by the way, it's just going
Speaker 1: to be the two of us. I know it's my
Speaker 1: dad's birthday weekend, and I told you it was a thing,
Speaker 1: but it's just going to be the two of us.
Speaker 1: And Alison is pissed, and she says she wouldn't missed.
Speaker 3: However, I remember that outfit and I really liked it,
Speaker 3: and had on the white shorts and that blue and
Speaker 3: white top which I remember, and the boots. Did you
Speaker 3: notice like those boots I had on with the shorts
Speaker 3: and that I remember that outfit had that detail.
Speaker 2: Don't you remember how big those were? That like little
Speaker 2: flower kind of sewn in detail.
Speaker 1: They'll applicate thing.
Speaker 2: I did the application. Yeah, Oh, those were so big.
Speaker 3: I love I remember the boots. I remember just loving
Speaker 3: that outfit.
Speaker 2: Well, you looked a door. Do you remember where you
Speaker 2: shot it? Did you guys go out to Palm Springs?
Speaker 2: Probably not somewhere.
Speaker 3: In an apartment building in the probably Santa Cia. I
Speaker 3: was going to say the Valley, but maybe Santa Crita.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because it looked like a little like cul
Speaker 1: de sac, you know, like complex, right right, you pull
Speaker 1: a little condo complex. Yeah, yeah, so it could have
Speaker 1: been lots of places. Probably wasn't. Actually, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of those here in southern California, like all over there,
Speaker 1: so many. Yeah, and so Allison's upset because she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to send the wrong message, like, hey, wait, you
Speaker 1: know you told me I was just coming as your friend,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have come if it was just us. This
Speaker 1: is kind of awkward. And then sure enough when Billy's
Speaker 1: parents come to the door, Uh, it's clear that. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, I also told my parents that you're
Speaker 1: my girlfriend in.
Speaker 2: The door open. Yeah, but yeah, that was a brief,
Speaker 2: little palm spring scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's our That's where Alison learns that
Speaker 1: Billy has told his parents that Alison is his girlfriend,
Speaker 1: and again she's upset by that. So then we're back
Speaker 1: in the apartment where Sandy is studying her lines and
Speaker 1: Ronda's music is too loud for her, so she asks
Speaker 1: Ronda to leave the apartment. That's annoying for Ronda. Sandy
Speaker 1: reveals she has eight lines and three screams.
Speaker 3: But I did notice that because there's no one there
Speaker 3: to say to her. There are no small parts, only
Speaker 3: small actors when they're going to tell her, you don't
Speaker 3: count your line, Sweetene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and did you notice that by this episode, Sandy's
Speaker 1: accent is completely gone?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And I thought I was paying attention. I thought it
Speaker 3: was sort of fading. I thought she was sort of
Speaker 3: fading it out. There's a hint gradually, but by the
Speaker 3: next episode there's none.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt like it was pretty pretty not present
Speaker 1: in this one, which I think makes it just makes
Speaker 1: it easier. It just felt more comfortable.
Speaker 2: I feel like it came back a little when she
Speaker 2: was with Jake seen later in the courtyard. It kind
Speaker 2: of comes when she does this, you know, Damsel in
Speaker 2: distress or this kind of Hollywood stole that thing. She could, yeah,
Speaker 2: yet into it. But but I didn't even think about
Speaker 2: it this time watching it. Yeah, I did notice. If
Speaker 2: we can just go talk about the the the apartment itself,
Speaker 2: you know, it's very Rhonda. There's a lot of sort
Speaker 2: of like ethnic African fabric, and you know, of course
Speaker 2: her wardrobes kind of like that all funky, and but
Speaker 2: I just overall noticed how everybody's apartment was very different
Speaker 2: and full and colorful and distinctive, you know, like the
Speaker 2: Michael and Jane they had all this stuff in the kitchen,
Speaker 2: all foods and supplies, where these girls there was nothing
Speaker 2: in the refrigerator really except for the cake that they're
Speaker 2: gonna eat. But I just noticed like each apartment was
Speaker 2: very distinctive, which I Yeah, our set designer was wonderful.
Speaker 3: I'm going to remember her name. She decorated my first house.
Speaker 1: Oh that's reallyazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was remembering that that first house I had
Speaker 3: on North Nole, and like Callywood, I bought it because
Speaker 3: it was up the street from the house rought Andrews
Speaker 3: shared with his four roommates. And that's how I found.
Speaker 3: I was driving home from his house one day and
Speaker 3: I saw this house a quarter of a mile from
Speaker 3: the house where he lived. And then she did the decorating.
Speaker 3: To me, she was wonderful. I'm going to look up
Speaker 3: her name.
Speaker 2: As we said, Oh that's great. Did it look like
Speaker 2: any of the apartments.
Speaker 3: Like no, but it really it felt very me so
Speaker 3: what we're trying. She's really good at seeing a personality
Speaker 3: and putting it together. Yeah, I loved that house. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she did a great job.
Speaker 1: Very cool. Well, that's the thing about the sets, because
Speaker 1: they would just have like a one bedroom apartment as
Speaker 1: like a blank slate, and then they would dress it
Speaker 1: for whatever scenes they were shooting that day. They would
Speaker 1: dress it for if it was Ronda's apartment or if
Speaker 1: it was Matt's apartment, like whoever's apartment was a one bedroom,
Speaker 1: they would redress. When when Sydney had an apartment, it
Speaker 1: was not always that space was not always Sydney's. The
Speaker 1: interior of it r It's just according to what set
Speaker 1: decorating was there. So it was really cool that they
Speaker 1: could really completely change a space with because if you.
Speaker 2: Look if you're out in the courtyard and you look
Speaker 2: at the exterior of all the apartments, all of them
Speaker 2: are not full apartments like Joe's. When you're on the
Speaker 2: courtyard and you look up to where I moved into
Speaker 2: where Ronda and Sandy I believe live now, it's just
Speaker 2: a facade, that's just a door. There's nothing behind there.
Speaker 2: So they actually had to borrow another apartment that was
Speaker 2: fully there, So they did that, and they had to
Speaker 2: have a good memory of what goes.
Speaker 3: Now, So which one were you? Because the first flour
Speaker 3: apartments were all working apartments and upstairs were all just facades.
Speaker 3: So when you were in your apartment, which downstairs apartment
Speaker 3: did you use? Because it might have been because it
Speaker 3: was right below. Yeah, but yours was full of makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might have been Jakes. I've never remember going
Speaker 2: into what was you know, Michael and James and using
Speaker 2: that as mine. Ever, it was a mind out that
Speaker 2: was yours. Yeah, okay, of course you okay, we're not
Speaker 2: going to go too far ahead, but yeah, but interesting
Speaker 2: it's how they, you know, interchange these spaces that are
Speaker 2: just sets that it's.
Speaker 1: All in the decor, yeah, to make them individual. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so Sandy's you know, she's trying to study, and she's anxious,
Speaker 1: and she's asking Ronda to be quieter and actually maybe
Speaker 1: you could just leave, And she doesn't even want Randa
Speaker 1: to use her phone because she thinks she won't answer
Speaker 1: the call waiting soon enough, and she's really anxious about
Speaker 1: like making sure that she doesn't miss any calls or
Speaker 1: messages from her new job. Then we go to Palm Springs,
Speaker 1: where Billy's parents are excited to learn about Alison. And
Speaker 1: they are at the table and Allison can see that
Speaker 1: Billy has told his parents all sorts of things about
Speaker 1: her that aren't exactly accurate, including like the nature of
Speaker 1: their relationship, how they met. Billy tells Allison then that
Speaker 1: his dad wants him to come to work at the
Speaker 1: furniture store.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he picture as a literary agent. There's this
Speaker 3: whole Personnelity's kind of fighting it but almost saying things
Speaker 3: and then getting interrupted. There's a line where we go
Speaker 3: outside and I'm so mad at him and I say,
Speaker 3: you say, I am really going to kill you for this.
Speaker 3: He was like, you're not thinking kill you? It was
Speaker 3: so yeah, I am going to rip off you like you.
Speaker 1: But what I want to say is you're in trouble
Speaker 1: with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that subjects from nature. I love the whole
Speaker 1: rom com nature of it. This is such a great situation,
Speaker 1: you know, like, do.
Speaker 2: You have a minute we can talk? And you walk
Speaker 2: in the other room and you're like, come out, Hi,
Speaker 2: Billy's parents, how are you?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: It's I just love that. This is so not the
Speaker 2: Melrose we came into Laura.
Speaker 1: It's so great it's very cute and Billy Billy is
Speaker 1: saying that because his dad wanted him to, you know,
Speaker 1: inherit this furniture business if he wasn't successful as a
Speaker 1: writer after one year. He really thought that at least
Speaker 1: by presenting Alison as his girlfriend, that would please his
Speaker 1: parents enough and maybe distract them from like sort of
Speaker 1: laying down the gauntlet and saying he needed to come
Speaker 1: be the furniture store manager.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and his girlfriend the literary agent is all
Speaker 3: sorts of then, yeah.
Speaker 1: Twisting the truth a little bit. So that's that's Billy's agenda.
Speaker 1: And so at the dinner table, we learned that Billy's sister, Stephanie,
Speaker 1: you know, has the sauce thing down that his mom's
Speaker 1: really good at. But Billy's dad says, well, Billy has
Speaker 1: the salesman thing according to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's so sweet, right because his dad is
Speaker 3: coming from a really loving, sweet place, like we share this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's where he asked of her professional opinion
Speaker 1: as a literary agent about what do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but sir on the spot about that and what is
Speaker 1: the time frame for his success sort of thing.
Speaker 2: In a couple of months.
Speaker 1: Allison's really put on the spot. She's like, well, it depends,
Speaker 1: you know. Poor Billy doesn't feel like it's quite enough
Speaker 1: of a supportive answer. But Allison was kind of put
Speaker 1: on the spot. Absolutely, And I feel like outside of
Speaker 1: our business when he says a couple of years, like
Speaker 1: that's almost unbelievable. In our business, that's not unbelievable. That
Speaker 1: would be amazing if it happened.
Speaker 2: In a couple of years. Well, you could support yourself
Speaker 2: with this business. Yeah, But every other industry, I guess
Speaker 2: moves faster because sometimes it takes forever to get your break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really hard. When Jake was talking to Sandy
Speaker 3: about you know, there's a lot of rejection in that business,
Speaker 3: it's I just went, oh, boy, is there right? And
Speaker 3: in a successful career, there's so much rejection you have
Speaker 3: to deal with. Like, say you get one out of
Speaker 3: twenty jobs, that's a great average, and you've gotten rejected
Speaker 3: nineteen times.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, like if you look at anyone's resume and you
Speaker 2: know them from one or two or maybe three projects,
Speaker 2: you don't see the other one hundred in there where
Speaker 2: they had a one liner or a couple of you know,
Speaker 2: episodes and just didn't get the job or didn't get it,
Speaker 2: And that's not even counting those A.
Speaker 3: Lot of the times when you get really really close
Speaker 3: and then like you don't get at your heart. So
Speaker 3: you've already planned what you're going to buy with the money,
Speaker 3: make the.
Speaker 2: Job, planned how your career is going to go.
Speaker 3: You're twenty years in the future, like, wait, what this
Speaker 3: is my first step?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she played that well to the vulnerability and the
Speaker 3: heartbreak of that well.
Speaker 1: Back with Sandy, she's getting ready for a Hollywood party
Speaker 1: she's going to with the people that she's been hired,
Speaker 1: you know, the producer, the casting person is going to
Speaker 1: take her out to this party, and she's borrowed address
Speaker 1: of Ronda's without asking, so Ronda's getting annoyed about, you know,
Speaker 1: the way Sandy's all of a sudden, you know, prioritizing
Speaker 1: her job over everything else. And there's a knock at
Speaker 1: the door and Sandy assumes it's her person picking her
Speaker 1: up for this party, but it turns out it's the
Speaker 1: Melrose Place Gang, surprising Sandy getting the part, gradulating her
Speaker 1: forgetting which was so sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so sweet, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: With balloons and Yeah, bring.
Speaker 3: The big hug. It's adorable.
Speaker 1: And Sandy's so so distracted about, you know, wanting to
Speaker 1: make the right impression for this Hollywood producer that she
Speaker 1: tells them to hide the balloons. Sorry, I don't have
Speaker 1: time for cake, and I gotta go to this party.
Speaker 1: And it's sort of disappointing for everybody, especially for Ronda.
Speaker 1: She's disappointed.
Speaker 3: And I will say, the way Amy played it, I
Speaker 3: really had compassion for her. Like she wasn't being dismissive
Speaker 3: or braddy. She was just saying, I can't have this
Speaker 3: right now. I'm trying to make a good impression and
Speaker 3: this makes me seem needy or whatever her story was.
Speaker 3: But I felt for her. I thought that, I know
Speaker 3: Rond is reacting to her getting a big head, but
Speaker 3: I didn't see that. I thought she played it so
Speaker 3: vulnerably that I was thinking that Ronda was overreacting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I agree. I felt like it was
Speaker 2: more in the story, in the writing that she was
Speaker 2: getting a big head and that and this is a
Speaker 2: crossroads that a lot of us go through when you
Speaker 2: start to do well in your career and other people aren't.
Speaker 2: I mean, as we were just saying how hard it is.
Speaker 2: And we've all had roommates or something when we get
Speaker 2: a job and you kind of and people will say
Speaker 2: this to you, like, oh, you're getting a big head
Speaker 2: or something. I think it's very relatable in our industry,
Speaker 2: but I didn't see it happening. I felt like it
Speaker 2: was more of a story point that the writer.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just trying to get launch it vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for her it's a big deal and she
Speaker 1: really just wants it to go well. And yeah. So
Speaker 1: back at the Palm Springs drama unfolding, where Billy comes
Speaker 1: out to the patio to talk to his father and
Speaker 1: he wants to tell Immy he doesn't really you know, no,
Speaker 1: if he wants to do this furniture thing, he really
Speaker 1: wants to keep pursuing his writing thing. And his father
Speaker 1: says he just wants Billy to come around and stop
Speaker 1: indulging himself in the writing thing and asks Billy to
Speaker 1: give the furniture store a shot, and then we cut
Speaker 1: to the I think it's the basement where Billy's mom
Speaker 1: is showing Alice in the place where she and Billy
Speaker 1: are going to share the pull out couch and sleep
Speaker 1: for the night. Billy's already in the bed. He seems unfazed.
Speaker 3: He sless scene number twoss and not just shirtless, in
Speaker 3: which Alison doesn't seem to notice. I'm like, are you
Speaker 3: not seeing what we're seeing? Allison?
Speaker 1: And I saw that you brought your your very thick robe.
Speaker 1: That's apparently it was Chilli and Tom Springs. I need
Speaker 1: a huge Jeffie rope? Did you? Did you notice it?
Speaker 2: She says?
Speaker 1: Sleeping in the same bed with and for the weekend
Speaker 1: and whatever with Billy is Allison's worst nightmare. She go,
Speaker 1: my worst nightmare. I'm like, honey, if that is your
Speaker 1: worst nightmare, you.
Speaker 3: Had a pretty charmed life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If that's the worst thing that ever happy.
Speaker 1: Wait, so what's your best no eyes?
Speaker 3: What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And I and the and and the irony was
Speaker 2: you know, a capture by the director, the wide shot
Speaker 2: and he's naked and good looking. It's this little bed,
Speaker 2: this little privacy, and you're like in your robe and
Speaker 2: like the nightmare.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just this is my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2: It was great. Pull it up high to my neck.
Speaker 3: I'm lying next from all stiff, it all pulled up
Speaker 3: hide to my neck.
Speaker 1: It or Alison.
Speaker 3: Maybe she needs contact. Maybe the storyline we don't know.
Speaker 3: She really can't see anything.
Speaker 1: I think it was just a sign that Courtney the
Speaker 1: actress was acting her pants off.
Speaker 3: Because the camera we were making out like crazy.
Speaker 1: For you guys, like he love it totally, So I, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to act really incensed by this. And Billy's
Speaker 1: bummed and tells Alison he's bummed that she didn't really
Speaker 1: come to his defense at dinner and admits that he
Speaker 1: really doesn't want to break his dad's heart, but.
Speaker 2: Which is so sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So then Sandy's coming home from her party. She's
Speaker 1: coming through the courtyard.
Speaker 2: Is she drunk?
Speaker 1: Is she just acting drunk? She seems it's I wasn't sure,
Speaker 1: but she was seemed like she really wanted to exude.
Speaker 1: I had such a great time, it was amazing.
Speaker 3: Confused, I think she was that was playing drunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah he actually was coming home drunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't you think that's what she was playing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: It was confusing. I definitely when she turned to she
Speaker 1: definitely wanted him to know she had a great Hollywood night,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm on my way.
Speaker 2: That's what I felt like. She was like talking all that.
Speaker 1: Up, right, But I my question was, like, I know
Speaker 1: she wanted him to think that, and so you could
Speaker 1: see that she was like really pushing so that he
Speaker 1: would see that it was great, I had a great time.
Speaker 1: She was almost throwing it in his face a little bit,
Speaker 1: like weaponizing it a little bit. But I guess my
Speaker 1: I wondered because like she even exits the scene and
Speaker 1: she sort of like laughs at him and saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he invites her to midnight swim and she says, no,
Speaker 1: you know, you had your chance, ha ha ha, and
Speaker 1: she sort of like leaves and she leaves the scene
Speaker 1: with kind of a laughing at him and whatever. And
Speaker 1: I was like, what it is is that her just
Speaker 1: wanting to show Jake that she had a great time?
Speaker 1: Did she actually have a great time when she didn't
Speaker 1: see it?
Speaker 3: And when she came in, he didn't know he was there,
Speaker 3: So I don't think she was doing it for him.
Speaker 1: Right, He came out after right, But then like once
Speaker 1: that conversation started, that's why I started going, are you
Speaker 1: actually drunk or are you like just wanting him to
Speaker 1: see a certain thing, like wanting to present a certain way.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it was a little confusing, but I do think
Speaker 2: that it's on that point. Throughout this whole script, I
Speaker 2: was waiting for some more definition with her experience with
Speaker 2: the Hollywood group, you know, like, I know that there
Speaker 2: was mixed and probably most of it wasn't good, but
Speaker 2: you tell yourself it was a great night and he
Speaker 2: felt really out of it anyway, So I think you're
Speaker 2: always gonna it wasn't really clear. We actually never saw
Speaker 2: anyone else. We never saw a guy, a producer or
Speaker 2: anyone else, so who knows what it was like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But then we're back with Alison and Billy, and
Speaker 1: Alison is watching Billy as he is preparing to go
Speaker 1: to the furniture store, and Billy still feels like he's
Speaker 1: owing it to his dad, and you know, says, what
Speaker 1: would you do if it if it was your dad?
Speaker 1: And Allison's response is sort of interesting here. She says, well, Verry,
Speaker 1: I guess we've had different experiences, very crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I didn't realize I know, Lady Allison had
Speaker 3: a very complicated relationship with her dad. I didn't realize
Speaker 3: that we knew this at this point. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's really.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, you must not have known these
Speaker 1: details yet as an actor, even like what that story
Speaker 1: was going to be because.
Speaker 3: Right, no, yeah, I wonder if they told me. I
Speaker 3: wonder if I did know, because that was very loaded
Speaker 3: the way I.
Speaker 1: Would say, definitely loaded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I would guess I don't know, Court,
Speaker 2: but I would guess not because I think writers, they
Speaker 2: will draw it an outline for the whole season, you know,
Speaker 2: but they don't. I don't think we find out about
Speaker 2: your father and what really went down this even season
Speaker 2: it's way down in the future, so you know, they're
Speaker 2: just trying to like hint at things were different, and
Speaker 2: as writers, my guess is we'll flesh it in later
Speaker 2: what really happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good writing though, to drop that pebble there. Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and you get.
Speaker 1: You get you get a sense of like her in
Speaker 1: her life and how she's you know, sort of witnessing
Speaker 1: what Billy's choices are and just how she can't sort
Speaker 1: of understand his choices based on her own experience, that
Speaker 1: it's just been very, very different from her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and why she feels alone in it, like why
Speaker 3: when she couldn't make the rent, she didn't call her parents,
Speaker 3: like she feels alone in the world for some reason.
Speaker 1: So we're learning, we're learning about both of them through
Speaker 1: this storyline. And then we're at the furniture store where
Speaker 1: Billy is trying to sell a couple on a sofa
Speaker 1: and he's suggesting the floral Chintz and he's got a
Speaker 1: giant blazer on with huge shoulders and he marches off
Speaker 1: to go pull down this fabric and his dad is
Speaker 1: watching him and he thinks Billy's doing great, and Billy
Speaker 1: just feels uncomfortable selling the couple on any of it.
Speaker 3: He's like, but he's saying, chintz and pine. Do you
Speaker 3: remember chintz and pine?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: I had so much of that. Do you remember on
Speaker 3: Venice Boulevard there were all those stories sold this pine furniture.
Speaker 3: I had so much of it that was that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shabby chic and all that light pine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually French.
Speaker 1: She was French country, an Irish country. Yes, I had that.
Speaker 1: The fabric store that they were shooting in it looked
Speaker 1: Did it look like an actual fabric store to you
Speaker 1: guys or a set furniture store like furniture store, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: because it had all the walls of fabric. Did you
Speaker 1: think it was like, I wonder where that was. At first,
Speaker 1: I was thinking of Calico Corners. Do you remember that place? No,
Speaker 1: that's right, I think that's just so. It was maybe
Speaker 1: just like a sofa you love or something.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't know the cal for all these years, Laura, I.
Speaker 1: Remember the names of stores for sure, you know them
Speaker 1: all so so then that then he's he's uncomfortable. Billy's
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with it, and he's talking to his dad, and
Speaker 1: his dad is defending it. And here's where he said.
Speaker 1: His Billy's father says to him, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: being a furniture salesman. That isn't wrong with being anyone else.
Speaker 1: And I had to rewind that one again and go
Speaker 1: play that back. What did he just say? Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me repeat it for you. There's nothing wrong with being
Speaker 1: a furniture salesman. That isn't wrong with being anyone else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just says it twice.
Speaker 3: He does words to live by it.
Speaker 1: It was tough. I mean, I think I think just
Speaker 1: as an actor, even like memorizing that line would be hard, like,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it did. It was sort of a head tilting.
Speaker 3: He probably came in and said, can I reword this,
Speaker 3: and we're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, no, you can't, No, no, you can't do
Speaker 1: that here, No say it like, say it just the
Speaker 1: way it's written.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of things make sense on paper
Speaker 2: that never makes sense coming out of somebody's mouth. That's
Speaker 2: a big kind of like a big thing about this
Speaker 2: about this industry that you know, we all know because
Speaker 2: we have to sell something that looked great on paper,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it just doesn't work coming out of somebody's mouth, doesn't.
Speaker 3: I one time I had an audition and I didn't
Speaker 3: get the job partly because I said this line and
Speaker 3: started laughing, and it was I'm not cannon fodder in
Speaker 3: your fight with your father? Oh And I just said
Speaker 3: and I just still laughing. I was like, can't you
Speaker 3: fight with your fadder? And there was a writer director
Speaker 3: and he was like, and you're done here.
Speaker 2: And imagine how many people he fired that day.
Speaker 3: You think he would hear it and go, yes, I
Speaker 3: need to change that. I think he blamed me. It's like,
Speaker 3: that's not on me.
Speaker 1: It's very different in writing and actually saying it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I loud, it can be, yes, ye can be.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Then Jane and Michael we find them in their apartment
Speaker 1: where Michael is attempting to cook for Jane and he's
Speaker 1: got one foot in the air and he's standing at
Speaker 1: the stove, doesn't want any help from Jane. Must to
Speaker 1: do it all. Don't you hurt yourself, don't you strain yourself?
Speaker 1: And then he ends up dropping the pan, hiding himself
Speaker 1: on fire, and Keane is like what She pulls the
Speaker 1: sink host she douses him and he's sopping wet and
Speaker 1: he goes full Jerry Lewis and crumples on the floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that and that was quite a stunt, and throw
Speaker 3: it in the sink, throw it in the sink, holding
Speaker 3: it up, and she spray She sprays him.
Speaker 1: The whole kitchen everything.
Speaker 3: He goes like the camera, did you notice the camera?
Speaker 2: The water is right on the camera. The cut right
Speaker 2: away from it exactly, They cut back to the pyrotechnics.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this was a whole stunt, afternoon, you could
Speaker 2: tell it took the stunt.
Speaker 1: A lot happened to just say, here's what we want
Speaker 1: to say is that Michael is trying to do something
Speaker 1: nice for Dana and really lights himself and the whole
Speaker 1: place on.
Speaker 3: Fire, and he's trying to make her the super healthy
Speaker 3: veggie dish, and she says she just wants a quarter pounder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, surprised he didn't run after her. No, you
Speaker 2: can't put that in your body.
Speaker 3: We're growing the child.
Speaker 1: So but luckily they put the fire out and all's well.
Speaker 1: That ends well and.
Speaker 3: Jies go to get a quarter pounder, which was great,
Speaker 3: good for her.
Speaker 2: Yep, but you're noticing in this, you're noticing screen script wise,
Speaker 2: Michael's trying too hard. Everything. He's just you know, with
Speaker 2: the with he breaks his he twists his ankle, moving
Speaker 2: the furniture, he's over eager with the cooking. He's just
Speaker 2: trying so hard.
Speaker 1: He's been a total from two episodes ago where he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want a kid. I'm not ready for a kid.
Speaker 1: Now he doesn't even want to see her, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, So then Billy is coming home and he
Speaker 1: he actually has to repeat the line to Alison there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with being a furniture salesman. That isn't isn't
Speaker 1: wrong anybody. Allison is saying, huh, but yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was He's just repeating that to himself and to talk
Speaker 1: himself into that and the reference that Allison says, congratulations, Billy,
Speaker 1: you've just won a million dollars, because Ed McMahon says, so, yes,
Speaker 1: it's sweet.
Speaker 2: That's still going on.
Speaker 1: That takes things that would come in the mail.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I remember my mom was so
Speaker 3: convinced that she had actually won. That would just so
Speaker 3: not like her. But I just really feel good that
Speaker 3: we Like, she brought a TV to our vacation house,
Speaker 3: which didn't have a TV, because she just this is
Speaker 3: the year anyway, sadly did not. Yeah, but didn't you
Speaker 3: kind of every time you open it you thought, why
Speaker 3: not me?
Speaker 1: It's an exciting possibility?
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, big check seepstakes?
Speaker 1: Does that you come knocking on the door, Yes, with
Speaker 1: this giant check. So then we're back with Rhonda and
Speaker 1: Sandy and they are fighting and Sandy says, fine, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll just move out. I'm you know, whatever, This isn't
Speaker 1: working anyway, and and Ronda's upset. She's like, I just
Speaker 1: feel like everybody's, you know, fed up with you.
Speaker 2: Sandy.
Speaker 1: You're blowing off your friends and and you know you're
Speaker 1: you're just getting a big head. And this is where
Speaker 1: it all comes to they're fighting about it, and Sandy says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I just think everyone's jealous and you're not
Speaker 1: supportive because I'm making my dreams happen, and you know,
Speaker 1: just because you don't have anything going on, you know,
Speaker 1: And didn't you cringe? And she said talking about it,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, that's so sixth grade.
Speaker 3: Everyone's talking about how horrible you are.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, and it was, and both of
Speaker 1: their both their cringing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And I loved how I loved that before
Speaker 2: that blow up though, them rehearsing the the lines and
Speaker 2: the way that Ronda.
Speaker 3: Is running them so disinterested.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And then like Sandy's like it doesn't say that,
Speaker 2: she goes, oh, I guess I got carried away. They
Speaker 2: did her.
Speaker 3: Own edit toil rolling her eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's really it's really, uh the struggle
Speaker 2: of the actor.
Speaker 1: Partner.
Speaker 2: You have to like make all this stuff real in
Speaker 2: your mind, and you're surrounded by people who don't get it,
Speaker 2: and they like do really bad line readings. But she's
Speaker 2: trying to help Ron, just trying to be supportive.
Speaker 1: Except she is sort of trying to real issue. She's
Speaker 1: helping to run her lines but it's also an opportunity
Speaker 1: to tell her what she really thinks, like really yeah,
Speaker 1: and then sure enough ends in a fight that that
Speaker 1: leaves Sandy saying, fine, I'm moving out. I've wanted to
Speaker 1: live alone anyway. So they end on that, and then
Speaker 1: we cut to the set where Sandy is filming, and
Speaker 1: she is screaming her way through we're in the forest,
Speaker 1: this movie set forest, Yeah, and she's doing that big
Speaker 1: scream again, and the female director asks for another take
Speaker 1: and she pulls the male actors, the monster guy who's
Speaker 1: the bad guy, and says, on this one, I want
Speaker 1: you to rip Sandy's blouse open, one button at a time.
Speaker 1: And Sandy overhears this direction and this clearly was not
Speaker 1: direction that was in the script, and Sandy's face totally falls,
Speaker 1: but to her credit, she asked the director like why
Speaker 1: this wasn't in the script and why do we have
Speaker 1: to do it that way? Why is that a thing?
Speaker 1: And the director says, well, if you don't want to
Speaker 1: do it, I'll just recast it, because basically there's a
Speaker 1: million other blondes who would be happy to do it.
Speaker 1: So what's it going to be? Are you going to
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 3: This way or yeah, And this scene brought me right
Speaker 3: back one of my first movie. I was seventeen years
Speaker 3: old and I was in Tahoe, and the storyline was
Speaker 3: I was seventeen and I was playing against this guy
Speaker 3: who was in his late thirties. The script. We did
Speaker 3: sleep together in the script, and I wore his one
Speaker 3: of his button down shirts afterwards, and I got to
Speaker 3: set that day. I'm in Tahoe and I got to
Speaker 3: set that date and there's this really sexy negligee in
Speaker 3: my room. Again I'm seventeen, and I went to the
Speaker 3: director and I said, this isn't what was written. And
Speaker 3: he said, well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I
Speaker 3: had no nudity clause, which we had, right, you have
Speaker 3: no nudity clauses in your contract now, which you're probably
Speaker 3: harder to get now that everybody's naked and everything. But
Speaker 3: and he goes, you know, I said, but the way
Speaker 3: it was cut, like I was very busty. Then I said,
Speaker 3: the way it's cut, something will show. And I also
Speaker 3: had this mindset of I'm seventeen of an almost year old,
Speaker 3: Like I knew it was kind of off, but the
Speaker 3: shirt made it feel right and this came up. I
Speaker 3: remembered this when all the Weinstein stuff was happening and
Speaker 3: women were talking about how their agent sent them to
Speaker 3: this hotel room, and I called my agent. My agent
Speaker 3: flew or drove up to Lake Tahoe to support me,
Speaker 3: and they said, don't do it. If you're not comfortable,
Speaker 3: don't do it. And like this scene, the producer came
Speaker 3: into my room and said, the whole crew is talking
Speaker 3: about what a baby you're being. Oh, they all think
Speaker 3: you're being such a baby.
Speaker 2: And I am, well, yeah, I had.
Speaker 3: Enough of a somehow, And I think it's because I
Speaker 3: was so supported Alisa Adler. God bless, I'm still with
Speaker 3: that agency today. They so had my back. They didn't
Speaker 3: say just do it, they said hold on. They came
Speaker 3: to support me, And I feel reading this, I feel
Speaker 3: so grateful that I had that kind of support because
Speaker 3: the pressure they put on me. It was a young
Speaker 3: young woman and I'm so grateful. And they were furious,
Speaker 3: and there was and I ended up wearing his button
Speaker 3: down shirt and.
Speaker 1: I scripped it.
Speaker 3: Grateful because they just trapped me. I walked into my
Speaker 3: room and there was this really sexy lingerie.
Speaker 2: So coordinated, how did they wait while they drive up
Speaker 2: to Tahoe or did it happen? Did you put a
Speaker 2: poda on us Stapen.
Speaker 3: Like that's what I'm thinking, like it must have. First
Speaker 3: of all, they said, don't do anything. You're not comfortable
Speaker 3: with my agent right, one hundred percent on my side,
Speaker 3: and they either backed down, but I remember they were
Speaker 3: really annoyed with me and I and the crew. But
Speaker 3: I will say this, it lied about the crew. Every
Speaker 3: single member of the crew came up and he said,
Speaker 3: good for you, good for you. They were so cruise
Speaker 3: are amazing, as you guys know right, Cruise are amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they.
Speaker 3: Really had my back. But I know I just got
Speaker 3: the connection right. Why I was so annoyed when Ronda said,
Speaker 3: everybody's annoyed with you, because that's what happened to me
Speaker 3: on that set. The crew thinks you being a baby. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't true. And thank god they had my back.
Speaker 3: So good support is so hugely important because they tried
Speaker 3: to brushure me into doing it. And here's part of
Speaker 3: it too. They said there won't be nudity, But what
Speaker 3: I was I was like, something's going to fall out,
Speaker 3: and I thought in my mind to thought and you're
Speaker 3: gonna film whether you use it here or not. I
Speaker 3: don't want to not have it. Yeah, I'm so grateful
Speaker 3: I had that ability to stand up for myself at
Speaker 3: that age. I'm amazed at I had that ability at
Speaker 3: that age. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had an experience like that too. I had wasn't
Speaker 2: in the script, and I had a We were out
Speaker 2: of the country and the director came in into my
Speaker 2: trailer and tried to convince me to shoot a nude
Speaker 2: and uh, I was like no. And I had a
Speaker 2: big agency, but I felt very trapped because this is
Speaker 2: way back when there were no cell phones. You're in
Speaker 2: a trailer in another country and there's this big producer
Speaker 2: director and you think everyone's you know. In hindsight, I
Speaker 2: look back and I see, oh, you know he was
Speaker 2: told to come in and once they have you away
Speaker 2: from the protection of your big agents. So I love
Speaker 2: that you know your agents protected you. I ended up
Speaker 2: not doing it, and I somehow reached somebody. But again,
Speaker 2: you're so young and you feel that pressure from someone
Speaker 2: who's supposed to trust you know, And here we are
Speaker 2: post me too, and we're we're seeing this way back then,
Speaker 2: and you're you're talking about a time that happened even
Speaker 2: before that, and it happened before this rose play scene,
Speaker 2: and I experienced it back in the eighties. And what
Speaker 2: I didn't like about what I thought was so odd
Speaker 2: about this script is why did they make the director
Speaker 2: a woman an Asian?
Speaker 3: We consciously did because.
Speaker 1: I felt like it was, you know, like to try
Speaker 1: to it was.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it.
Speaker 1: It seemed it seemed like the saying this is not
Speaker 1: just a male thing, this is a Hollywood thing, but
Speaker 1: it's saying this was a female director asked a girl.
Speaker 2: Was yeah, because I've never been pressured by a female director,
Speaker 2: and it's certainly never been a woman of color. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just not who does it well.
Speaker 3: No, But there was something recently on that show The
Speaker 3: Affair and that extraordinary Actreacy start on that she she
Speaker 3: had problems with the female user, who she said was
Speaker 3: writing gratuitous sex scenes. And there were a ton of
Speaker 3: gratuitous in you like they would. She'd be having a
Speaker 3: conversation scene, she's talking, we don't need to see her breasts,
Speaker 3: so it does happen. I think they were rarely. I
Speaker 3: agree with Laura that they were trying to say, it's
Speaker 3: not about this man being creepy. It's about her being pressured.
Speaker 1: By by Hollywood and the and the demands of Hollywood.
Speaker 3: By Hollywood, I think it was a really conscious choice
Speaker 3: to make her be a woman. But I agree with you,
Speaker 3: it's more rare, right, I think it's more rare. I
Speaker 3: think for the most part, female directors are much more
Speaker 3: conscious of being respectful of women.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I felt like it was a
Speaker 2: cheap shot. I didn't interesting because here's a woman, an
Speaker 2: Asian actress who how many offers does she get anyway?
Speaker 2: And then she plays like the bad guy director who
Speaker 2: talks tries to talk a young actress and to taken
Speaker 2: off our top. So I just thought it was.
Speaker 3: Sneaky.
Speaker 2: I just didn't like it. And this writer is a woman,
Speaker 2: you know, Darren co write it. Co wrote it maybe
Speaker 2: or oversaw it, but it was a woman ton Tony Graff,
Speaker 2: who does outlineder. She's done a ton of stuff. But
Speaker 2: I noticed that. I don't know, I just didn't know
Speaker 2: where that direction came from or that casting.
Speaker 3: But interesting, Yeah, it is interesting.
Speaker 1: So and you know, Sandy at the time didn't have
Speaker 1: any support. She had to make the decision in the
Speaker 1: moment right are you here?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 1: Interview out? It's basically what the director asks her and
Speaker 1: she has to make a choice. And so we see
Speaker 1: her begin the scene and she's obviously doing it with
Speaker 1: a lot of trepidation and she's you know, not happy,
Speaker 1: but she has she.
Speaker 2: Goes through with it.
Speaker 1: She feels really pressured. She didn't want to lose a job.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know if she cut through with it,
Speaker 2: because they cut the scene right.
Speaker 1: Well, you see that, you see the knife right then
Speaker 1: the scene like opening up the thing and the director
Speaker 1: encouraging her to go ahead and let the tears, go
Speaker 1: ahead and cry and then it kindly want to see
Speaker 1: her as a victim.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, based on her reaction after though, you assumed
Speaker 3: she went through with it, because.
Speaker 2: She's well no, she I mean, okay, we haven't gotten
Speaker 2: there yet, But she didn't go through with it.
Speaker 3: We know that she didn't me not keeping up okay,
Speaker 3: but what she.
Speaker 2: Tells Jake, So she didn't go through with it.
Speaker 1: But at any rate, you think she's did at this
Speaker 1: but she you know, she she was willing to do
Speaker 1: the next take, and because we do see her do that,
Speaker 1: she was willing to go, Okay, I'm going to try.
Speaker 1: And so she goes to do the next take and
Speaker 1: she's going through the wood. She does the scream, and
Speaker 1: then the guy comes and does cut the top. But
Speaker 1: I don't really see what happens after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see if she went like that or
Speaker 2: whatever exactly.
Speaker 1: So, but then the next morning, she's upset. She's packing
Speaker 1: her things to move out, and Ronda says to her,
Speaker 1: you know, she sort of apologizes and she didn't mean that, Sandy, didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, she didn't need to leave right away. And
Speaker 1: Sandy says, that's okay. I've got this great guest house
Speaker 1: waiting for me, and you know, somebody from this movie
Speaker 1: I've got. She's sort of telling lies about how great
Speaker 1: her opportunities are and she's going to move into the
Speaker 1: guest house. Things seem to be moving really fast. I
Speaker 1: guess it went okay on the set, Miranda and Sandy
Speaker 1: lies says it was great, and yeah, so yeah, so
Speaker 1: she's lying to herself, flying to Ronda.
Speaker 2: She's bounced. Man, she's she's had her Hollywood moment. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a real down. This happens to so many
Speaker 2: realities and yeah, in different ways to actors too.
Speaker 3: A lot of people quit after something like this. Exactly
Speaker 3: doing this again, exactly so true.
Speaker 1: So yeah. So back at the furniture store, there is
Speaker 1: a lady bouncing on a couch and tagonizing Billy for
Speaker 1: the pricing at the store, and Billy is annoyed. He
Speaker 1: finally just sort of loses his patience with the lady
Speaker 1: and offends her a little bit. And his dad has
Speaker 1: witnessed this and he has to come over and try
Speaker 1: to fix it and apologize to the lady.
Speaker 3: And and the lady is Liz Sheridan, who played Beld's mom,
Speaker 3: which oh so much fun to see her so crazy.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, yep, And that scene just opens it.
Speaker 3: She's yeah funny in this She's funny and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. And Billy's dad says, how are you
Speaker 1: ever going to the discipline to last one week at
Speaker 1: this job and apologizes and said that working here was
Speaker 1: just a bad idea and he leaves. Billy leaves. So
Speaker 1: then Jake catches Sandy as she's leaving the building in
Speaker 1: the courtyard. She's got all her stuff and he misinterprets
Speaker 1: her leaving is like sort of leaving everyone in the dust.
Speaker 1: He's like, you're just leaving everyone in the dust, and
Speaker 1: he's angry with her, and Sandy's like, no, that's you.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. Here's what happened. And she ends up
Speaker 1: telling him the whole story and she's very emotional telling it.
Speaker 1: She's honest. Instead of the lies that she was telling Arona,
Speaker 1: she's actually telling Jake what did happen? And she said
Speaker 1: she's feeling exploited. She feels exploited every day and she
Speaker 1: doesn't really know who she is and how to just
Speaker 1: be herself.
Speaker 2: But she just said I couldn't go through with it.
Speaker 2: That's where she says I couldn't go through with it,
Speaker 2: and he goes, well, what's wrong with that? That's great,
Speaker 2: and she's like, I know, but that's but that's when
Speaker 2: she says, I exploit myself every day and I don't
Speaker 2: know who I am and maybe that's why I'm an actor.
Speaker 2: I just want to start over. It's funny because the
Speaker 2: business and the acting itself gets into your head and
Speaker 2: messes with you. Who am I? You know? Who am
Speaker 2: I supposed to be? Who do they want me to be? Who?
Speaker 2: So she's like, I just got to leave and start
Speaker 2: over fresh.
Speaker 1: And can I do this here? Like is this even
Speaker 1: possible to be myself and to be you know, true
Speaker 1: to myself? And is this all it's ever going to be?
Speaker 1: But she says, you know, she thinks maybe she needs
Speaker 1: new friends and a new life and that's why she's leaving.
Speaker 1: And so Jake is angry and says, if you know,
Speaker 1: if you think you can just walk out of here
Speaker 1: and no one will miss you, you're wrong. So so
Speaker 1: she leaves, and then we're back at D and D.
Speaker 1: Billy's showing up at D and D and telling Alice
Speaker 1: quit the furniture store, and he's just watched a movie
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day time. Do you remember
Speaker 1: what movie he watched?
Speaker 3: Did he say what movie?
Speaker 1: The Beautiful and the Damned?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he said, you know this is because
Speaker 3: that was my favorite line. He said, you know who's
Speaker 3: in movie theaters during the day The beautyful?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I thought, oh, all right, yeah, I'm a.
Speaker 3: Great movie title though it is Young.
Speaker 2: New Bile Women.
Speaker 1: Why is that not Billy's next movie? You know, I
Speaker 1: used to go to matinees all the time.
Speaker 3: I love matinees.
Speaker 2: I never saw I noticed maybe I was one of
Speaker 2: those young new boths.
Speaker 1: But like coming out of the movie theater in the day,
Speaker 1: like when it's still light outside sort of disorienting. It's
Speaker 1: been dark inside and you come out and you're like.
Speaker 3: Especially in La there are so many creative people who
Speaker 3: don't work all the time, so a lot of people
Speaker 3: are out during the day, right, And.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of theaters here. I used to
Speaker 2: go to like the you know, the art houses, the
Speaker 2: little indies, and I would see like double features sometimes
Speaker 2: because you know, yeah, and of course you'd check your
Speaker 2: phone in between.
Speaker 1: Just in case, check your answering machine, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: Allison says, you know, I knew that wasn't right for you,
Speaker 1: and and Billy's like, well, why didn't Why didn't you
Speaker 1: tell me that in the first place, And she's like, what,
Speaker 1: I don't think I did.
Speaker 3: But anyway, she says, and I thought this was really
Speaker 3: good boundaries. She basically said, it's not for me to
Speaker 3: tell you what to do. Yeah, were you seeking out
Speaker 3: co codependin Anada's meetings? Like that's a pretty good that's
Speaker 3: a really good message, which is, you know, it's your life.
Speaker 3: You get to live your life.
Speaker 1: And he sort of knew it too, like he just
Speaker 1: wasn't being honest with himself about it.
Speaker 3: But he had to learn it in himself right, And
Speaker 3: even if she'd said he would have been, it would
Speaker 3: have been a fight, like, yeah, we have to learn
Speaker 3: our own lesson. That is a truism.
Speaker 2: As I said before, I'm trying to see all the
Speaker 2: writing aspects of this, and so that scene to me
Speaker 2: was like the first time someone he says, why didn't
Speaker 2: you say? And you say, what am I the all
Speaker 2: wise person? Like so she is, but she supports him
Speaker 2: and like, you know, you know, you don't have to
Speaker 2: do it, and then we're going to see you know,
Speaker 2: this starts the tie up, the tie you know, the
Speaker 2: neatly tiedbos where someone bestows some wisdom on the other
Speaker 2: character in the scene. And that's coming up with Sandy
Speaker 2: and Rohnda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that one, that one's pretty well wrapped up.
Speaker 1: And then Jane is back at the apartment and now
Speaker 1: she is cooking for Mumble, who's on the couch recovering
Speaker 1: his foot is up and he's telling Jane.
Speaker 2: He's not really very hungry.
Speaker 1: Don't make very much food. I'm not really hungry and
Speaker 1: he reveals that he's having some anxiety over having this baby.
Speaker 1: What if he doesn't know what to say to him,
Speaker 1: what if he doesn't know who he is? And Jane
Speaker 1: is awfully sweet and saying, you're going to be great,
Speaker 1: You're going to be a great dad, and so they're
Speaker 1: sort of coming to terms with their little struggles.
Speaker 3: And then he says to her, it's such a sweet moment.
Speaker 3: He says, how are you so wise? And she says,
Speaker 3: I have to be I'm going to be someone's mom.
Speaker 3: And the way she delivered it, I just want oh,
Speaker 3: it was so sweet. She's so good at those moments.
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, that was beautifully delivered.
Speaker 2: And again there's that word, the wise thing. I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that now that I'm thinking about it, like
Speaker 2: these are as you've always said, Court, like young people
Speaker 2: trying to make it, give it a go, Like what
Speaker 2: do they know? It's mostly you fall into potholes and
Speaker 2: you're freaking out. But there is wisdom in them, you know.
Speaker 2: We saw it with the with the Billy and the
Speaker 2: Alison just now, and now we see it with Jane
Speaker 2: and Michael. They don't know what's coming, but there is
Speaker 2: that wisdom, which I really I think that's the whole
Speaker 2: theme of the show so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what lessons can we learn from this? And there's
Speaker 1: always a good lesson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always support and the wisdom comes from the
Speaker 2: supporting each other and being there for each other.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which sand Ln Sandy comes back to the
Speaker 1: apartment and asks Ronda if she will take her back.
Speaker 1: They both apologize for their fight, and they decide to
Speaker 1: celebrate by eating their celebration cake that had come the
Speaker 1: night that they were trying to congratulate Sandy. Sandy apologizes again,
Speaker 1: saying I am an unbalanced personality, aren't I?
Speaker 3: But again, she doesn't seem super imbalanced. She handled it
Speaker 3: pretty well, actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And then Ronda says, yeah, but we balance
Speaker 1: each other out. But they're back to being roommates and
Speaker 1: friends again. And then Billy needs to resolve his stuff
Speaker 1: with his dad. He goes back to his dad's office
Speaker 1: late at night and the store is closed and his
Speaker 1: father's m glad you're back. Buill, didn't think you were
Speaker 1: that kind of a quitter, and but Billy says that
Speaker 1: he didn't come back to ask for the job back,
Speaker 1: and he tells them that he wants to start doing
Speaker 1: things his own way, and that even though he knows
Speaker 1: his dad wanted him to follow in his footsteps, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like the right thing for himself. So, you know,
Speaker 1: his dad reveals, well, you know, I guess I expected
Speaker 1: you to get the same thrill out of the store
Speaker 1: that I got was handed down to me for my father.
Speaker 1: But he accepts the fact that maybe it's just not
Speaker 1: for Billy. So they hug it out and he seems
Speaker 1: to be okay with Billy's decision, and they're back to
Speaker 1: being okay with each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very sweet, very sweet, seeing very sweet. And I
Speaker 2: think this is a real universal theme, don't you, about
Speaker 2: parents wanting really letting their child be who they are.
Speaker 2: I hear stories of, like, you know, a person trying
Speaker 2: to live up to at least for a while til
Speaker 2: they get older, maybe, but trying to live up to
Speaker 2: their parents' expectations, or like their parents just want them
Speaker 2: to be safe. Holly wants them to be safe and secure,
Speaker 2: you know. And it's so scary to be a writer,
Speaker 2: you know, in Hollywood. So but it seems like a
Speaker 2: real universal theme to me, standing up to your parents
Speaker 2: saying I'm me, I love you. Isn't that enough? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, and it works so well for him, right, His father,
Speaker 3: Billy's father's father, gave it to him and he thought, well,
Speaker 3: this is great. I have this thing to give you.
Speaker 3: I remember my dad. My dad had a market research
Speaker 3: and consulting company for the computer industry. And before he
Speaker 3: sold it, he said, and I was a working actor,
Speaker 3: like I was in my thirties, and he said, do
Speaker 3: you want the company? Like? And it was he said,
Speaker 3: I know the answer is probably no. But he had
Speaker 3: built this thing and he would love, would have loved
Speaker 3: to give it to me or my sister, but neither
Speaker 3: of us wanted it. And it was. He ended up
Speaker 3: selling it quite well.
Speaker 2: But I had that.
Speaker 3: I was the oh what a sweet moment, Like what
Speaker 3: if I was an actor? But I dreamed of working
Speaker 3: in the market research community. Right, Maybe that was my secret?
Speaker 1: Could have been Yeah, you couldn't And.
Speaker 2: Reminds me, I realized I have my own story. My
Speaker 2: dad was a professor and he said, I dropped out
Speaker 2: of UCLA just do my first that horror film I
Speaker 2: told you about where I was going to go and
Speaker 2: start it. I was a junior and I had uh
Speaker 2: and my father said to me years later, I was
Speaker 2: working with Lucille Ball mel Brooks, like on my way
Speaker 2: getting paid, I think maybe maybe about my first house, like,
Speaker 2: and he said, don't you want to go back and
Speaker 2: get your degree?
Speaker 1: Don't you want to go finish your degree and get
Speaker 1: just so you're a graduate of college.
Speaker 2: And I tried twice just to please him, thinking like
Speaker 2: what am I going to do with these extra you know,
Speaker 2: what am I going to do with that degree? But
Speaker 2: he just wanted me to be safe and I never
Speaker 2: got it. And then one of the directors I was
Speaker 2: working with with the Lucille Ball movie was the dean
Speaker 2: of the School of Arts at UCLA for a year.
Speaker 2: Can't you ask him for an honorary degree? And I
Speaker 2: was like, I'll get back to you. I'm just let
Speaker 2: me get my lines down and working with like the
Speaker 2: greatest comedian of all and you know, and I never
Speaker 2: asked George for an honorary degree, and so I'm still
Speaker 2: a dropout. But you know, it's that parent thing wanting Laura,
Speaker 2: do you have a story like that from your parents? Well?
Speaker 1: I do think like as parents, we all want something
Speaker 1: for our children, and it's not always what they want
Speaker 1: for themselves or like, you know, I think even when
Speaker 1: I was deciding to be an actor, I think it
Speaker 1: was my mom's probably worst nightmare, like what you know,
Speaker 1: like just such a such an unstable and unknown thing
Speaker 1: to do, like no guarantees at all anything that was
Speaker 1: sort of horrifying because I had I had left Iowa
Speaker 1: and moved out to California and you know, sort of
Speaker 1: decided to also drop out of college and like pursue
Speaker 1: what I was pursuing. And it was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: like just not having something stable to rely on or
Speaker 1: feel like is more reliable. I think it's really scary
Speaker 1: for a parent. But and you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: we're all like the success stories, like we're lucky, like
Speaker 1: we're you know, it's a very difficult business, and like
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody has quite a bit of
Speaker 1: luck to have it all work out, you know. I
Speaker 1: just I feel really lucky. It could have gone a
Speaker 1: million ways, and I lucky. But also I was told
Speaker 1: early on from a manager I had. He said, you
Speaker 1: have to have tenacity, period.
Speaker 2: And I had a friend of mine who said to
Speaker 2: me he was a producer, and he said, there are
Speaker 2: no failures, just quitters. So whenever I had down times
Speaker 2: or I wasn't working and I was worrying about stuff,
Speaker 2: it was like I just had these things in my mind,
Speaker 2: like I just can't quit period, you know, And I
Speaker 2: have to have be tenacious, I have to have that persistence,
Speaker 2: just keep on going. And it's true, it's true always.
Speaker 2: I think you know so well.
Speaker 1: And we talked about at the beginning, like the amount
Speaker 1: of rejection in this business, Like you have to want
Speaker 1: to do it so badly that you can't be talked
Speaker 1: out of it, you know. And I think that's that's
Speaker 1: something we always try to tell people who say, oh,
Speaker 1: I I you know, I think I might want to
Speaker 1: be an actor, and like and Doug and I always
Speaker 1: tell people like or our kids or whatever, like you
Speaker 1: have to want to do it so badly that I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to talk you out of it
Speaker 1: and tell you all the reasons you shouldn't and you
Speaker 1: should still want to do it. And then that's the
Speaker 1: indication that like you have the fortitude and the desire
Speaker 1: and the passion to do it, because it's brutally.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just hard. A lot of rejection more than
Speaker 1: anything and you have to want to be able to
Speaker 1: fight through that and want to do it.
Speaker 2: And I feel like you have to want to do
Speaker 2: it because you love the doing of it, Like I
Speaker 2: always tell I've always told younger people like you have
Speaker 2: to want to do it, whether it's on a local
Speaker 2: community stage or geeing it, or it's summer stock or
Speaker 2: and then if the break comes and you get to
Speaker 2: do it on Broadway or in front of a camera, awesome.
Speaker 2: But if you got to love to make these movies
Speaker 2: and make your own little movies, especially now with phones,
Speaker 2: you can, but you have to love the doing of
Speaker 2: it because we don't know what the result is going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that is the story that Billy
Speaker 1: and his dad are having. You know. His dad is like, yes,
Speaker 1: just this great reliable thing, this furniture store. And so
Speaker 1: actually that our last scene, Allison is in the courtyard,
Speaker 1: she's grilling, and Billy comes home and says, you know,
Speaker 1: I told my dad and it went really well, and
Speaker 1: thank you for the encouragement. And I'm telling him the truth.
Speaker 1: This is my truth. Yes, right, a writing career going
Speaker 1: to be hard, But I didn't want the furniture business.
Speaker 1: And and so that was great, and he told his
Speaker 1: parents the truth about that. But then he reveals to Alison.
Speaker 2: But oh, actually, she asks him, did I tell him
Speaker 2: about the truth about us?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you clear up the bit about like I'm not
Speaker 1: your girlfriend? He's like, oh, yeah, no about that. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't tell them that. We can. We can tell
Speaker 1: them that the next time we take a trip with him,
Speaker 1: which is by the way, like Powell for this family trip,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell him then Houseboat, we're all getting on
Speaker 1: a hospital and she's like, what, there's a very cute
Speaker 1: episode out where we it's a very like you said,
Speaker 1: rom com ending where they go bickering about So give
Speaker 1: me the I'm gonna call him and tell him myself.
Speaker 2: And she leaves. She goes in and he's She's like,
Speaker 2: what's the phone number? I'm telling them now? And he's
Speaker 2: like no, and he follows her, and you hear it.
Speaker 2: I love it. The camera pulls out cue you just
Speaker 2: hear them so super cute number. What's the you know,
Speaker 2: very funny? Yeah, give me the phone, give me the number,
Speaker 2: Give me the phone, give me the number. And you
Speaker 2: know those two are going to get together any deal.
Speaker 1: Well, we can only hope And yeah, so that's that.
Speaker 1: That's episode number seven. That's a rep on another Still
Speaker 1: the Place recap. We're halfway to Daphne, we're turning the core.
Speaker 3: With then a third of the way to Laura and.
Speaker 2: On the way to it becoming a totally different show.
Speaker 2: We're only a.
Speaker 1: Few episodes away from Sweeps, which is where like the
Speaker 1: first order of thirteen episodes, right if we're on seven now,
Speaker 1: around twelve and thirteen, they were hitting those episodes around
Speaker 1: Sweeps week and trying to get like really good ratings
Speaker 1: for this section of time and also to find out
Speaker 1: if they were going to get picked up for their
Speaker 1: back nine order.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what I see, Like we talked about this
Speaker 3: episode gelling in the last one, like it's kind of
Speaker 3: so nice that we were under the radar for so long,
Speaker 3: we were getting to know each other because then we really
Speaker 3: were friends when it took off. That's really lucky, right,
Speaker 3: if it had taken off right away, might have fractured.
Speaker 1: But at this point you must not have been so
Speaker 1: sure because the ratings weren't great, and you know you're
Speaker 1: approaching that.
Speaker 3: Rattings weren't great and getting towards.
Speaker 1: Us, Yeah, getting towards the end of thirteen. You don't
Speaker 1: know if you have any more episodes after that. It
Speaker 1: might just end up thirteen, unless all righty, we'll pick
Speaker 1: you up, so tune in next week. I'm still the
Speaker 1: place to find out, all right, See you next week.