Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I heart radio podcast, Welcome to You, and that's
Speaker 1: what you really missed. The sectional episode. Jenna's on her
Speaker 1: a one voiceover game today. That was really beautiful. I
Speaker 1: just got my teeth clean, so I feel fresh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just enunciates, show those teeth off. This is the fall finale.
Speaker 1: This is we didn't know if we were coming back
Speaker 1: show when we filmed this, this whole the tone of
Speaker 1: this episode, um when I of what I remember of
Speaker 1: it is very like nostalgic and very like emotional, because
Speaker 1: we didn't know if we were coming back, so I
Speaker 1: think everything was like this could be the last. Ironically,
Speaker 1: it was definitely not the last. There were scenes that
Speaker 1: I remember watching it. There were scenes that I remember
Speaker 1: reading for the first time, and it felt sort of bittersweet.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we got this far. Doing thirteen episodes
Speaker 1: felt monumental. I had never done more than one or
Speaker 1: two episodes of a TV show before, and it was
Speaker 1: just really really cool because like we read it like, well,
Speaker 1: this all feels great, this feels right, could be the end.
Speaker 1: And it was directed by Brad Felchuk, which felt like
Speaker 1: you know, there was this like full three sixty moment happening. Um,
Speaker 1: coming back around to like one of the creators. Um,
Speaker 1: we reflective of like seeing how far all the characters
Speaker 1: had come and all the songs we had performed. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a big deal to us. It was a
Speaker 1: big deal, all right. So this episode aired on December nine,
Speaker 1: and um, we are still in the Empire state of
Speaker 1: mind number one song and the Blindside number one movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: what happened in the Glean news cycle this week? Kevin? Okay,
Speaker 1: so we sort of got nominated for four Golden Globes.
Speaker 1: No big deal. This was a big deal. This was
Speaker 1: a very big deal. We lost our minds. We did
Speaker 1: lose our minds. Is very exciting. There was lots of buzz.
Speaker 1: I don't think I was prepared for any of the
Speaker 1: stuff in the press and everything that we would be
Speaker 1: going through. But um, it was a big deal. It
Speaker 1: was just really exciting. This felt very like a tangible
Speaker 1: thing where you know, you get numbers and oh, eight
Speaker 1: million people watched this episode. The songs are doing really well,
Speaker 1: but it still feels really removed and something like the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes that like we had grown up watching all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're now a part of like this
Speaker 1: now like hit TV show, Hollywood reality thing, and this
Speaker 1: was very beginning, weird and tangible. No, you're right, you're
Speaker 1: actually very right, and this was like the beginning of
Speaker 1: all of it. This is like being shot out of
Speaker 1: a cannon. Understanding the award season and all of it.
Speaker 1: Just it's a crazy, crazy circuit. Glee won five awards
Speaker 1: at the fourteenth Annual Satellite Awards UM Christie Channel, with
Speaker 1: one for Best Outstanding Guest Star. Leah was one for
Speaker 1: Best Actress, Jane one for Best Supporting Actress, and Matt
Speaker 1: Morrison won for Best Actor. So here was named this
Speaker 1: Entertainers of the Year and had Matt and Leah and
Speaker 1: Corey on the cover m which was very cool. I
Speaker 1: do remember that. And then UM Glee Season one, Volume one,
Speaker 1: The Road to Sectionals was released on DVD when DVDs
Speaker 1: were still yeah, streaming did not exist, So this UM
Speaker 1: was the midseason break and Glee did not come back
Speaker 1: again for the back nine to air until April. So
Speaker 1: we went from December night till April two ten, which
Speaker 1: is crazy because we didn't go off, you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't go away. We didn't go off air, we didn't
Speaker 1: do all that. We were working the whole time. Well,
Speaker 1: the break that we had was sort of our promo
Speaker 1: break where we didn't know if we were coming back yet.
Speaker 1: We had to go out and um promote the first
Speaker 1: thirteen as that's like, we went to Australia, we did
Speaker 1: the Hot Topic tour. That was our break. It was
Speaker 1: at the very beginning of the season when um It
Speaker 1: actually started airing, and then we came back at some
Speaker 1: point I think in the late fall, right right. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you remember like going home for the holidays then,
Speaker 1: because that was the that was a huge difference of Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we went back to do like your normal things
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there's people coming up. You're
Speaker 1: not normal anymore. Yeah. I remember going ice skating UM
Speaker 1: in Dallas with like my family and people were coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at ice skating, so it was already embarrassing,
Speaker 1: and then people kept coming up to me and I
Speaker 1: had like my little nieces and that few with me,
Speaker 1: and it was so like how protective they got very
Speaker 1: quickly like why all these people talking to him that
Speaker 1: it's so annoying. I'm like no, it's fine, it's nice,
Speaker 1: don't worry. I remember going home m being able to
Speaker 1: buy my family really nice Christmas gifts because we were
Speaker 1: finally talking to me about this. Yes and um no,
Speaker 1: it was just exciting to be able to take your
Speaker 1: parents out to dinner and like be like I got it,
Speaker 1: and you know, buy them good kids and like and
Speaker 1: then also like seeing all your high school friends and
Speaker 1: being like I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. We just
Speaker 1: got drunk. It's fine. Um, but it's weird. It really exciting.
Speaker 1: It was really excited. Everybody was just like super excited
Speaker 1: because it was like the big hype. They're like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. So and I mean my parents hated that.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if they did this year
Speaker 1: or the next year. But we went out for like
Speaker 1: a big Christmas Eve dinner and I would try to
Speaker 1: on the slide, just pay for it. Yeah, And it
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: and that, you know, because of my parents, Like you
Speaker 1: have to save all your money, you keep be doing this,
Speaker 1: you pay for me for twentysomething years. Let me do
Speaker 1: this one thing. It's fine. My favorite Italian restaurant that
Speaker 1: we go to for Christmas Eve when it was still
Speaker 1: up on Christmas Eve was Vincent's Clambar in Garden City,
Speaker 1: and we would like it's a sorry tradition. Now we
Speaker 1: eat it all the time when I go home. And
Speaker 1: they gave me like a little plaque on the tables,
Speaker 1: like the New York Islanders got little plaques on the tables,
Speaker 1: and I felt very special, and they wanted me to
Speaker 1: take a photo with the owners. I've done a couple
Speaker 1: of those, and um, every time they gave me like
Speaker 1: a jar of sauce and like either take care of
Speaker 1: dinner or take care of like, you know, a ton
Speaker 1: of the meals. And it was just always like it.
Speaker 1: It was our favorite place. But that's when you started
Speaker 1: feeling like the yeah, you know, you're like, oh, people
Speaker 1: are noticing, people are well, you know, the little local place.
Speaker 1: Maggiano's and TLAs did not do that for me. But
Speaker 1: it's fine Clambar, what a stap alilens table us delicious?
Speaker 1: All right, So should we get into this episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go for it. Okay, all right, this is the
Speaker 1: Road Sectionals or Sectionals, and this has all of the
Speaker 1: songs that we've seen before, except for a new couple
Speaker 1: of surprises like you can't always get what you want
Speaker 1: and my life it's like without you, which I love
Speaker 1: that song. Um, we've got our guest stars Michael Hitchcock,
Speaker 1: Eve and the judges. M hmm, that's right. And we
Speaker 1: get to see, you know, some of our songs that
Speaker 1: we've already done, done by other people. And you get
Speaker 1: to see Amber doing and I'm telling you for the
Speaker 1: first time pre winning an Olivier Award for playing Effie
Speaker 1: in the West End, which I got to see. Also,
Speaker 1: how how crazy that was? Wild? Um, I watched that
Speaker 1: last night. We can talk about it and de cried.
Speaker 1: So it's wild. It's a wild ride. Um. This is
Speaker 1: the thirteenth episode. The Fox promo for this episode says,
Speaker 1: the phenomenon that has made America Sing brings you an
Speaker 1: unforgettable fall finale, guaranteed to make you cheer. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: I have to say that was very good. But seeing
Speaker 1: these promos and I know it's all hype and they're
Speaker 1: just like trying to convince people that the show is
Speaker 1: probably more successful than it really is. But you know,
Speaker 1: being an avid TV consumer growing up and being a
Speaker 1: part of a show that all of a sudden is
Speaker 1: advertised like this was very surreal. It was very cool,
Speaker 1: very surreal. There was everything that was happening at that
Speaker 1: time was so unbelievable, very big, right. And this is
Speaker 1: also around the time I had one of my best
Speaker 1: friends justin I remember him being like, do you know
Speaker 1: what's happening? Like can you feel the effect of the show?
Speaker 1: Do you have any sense or awareness? And I was
Speaker 1: like yeah, and he's like, no, you don't, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't. I don't think we could ever experience whatever,
Speaker 1: but people outside experience yeah, because wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1: But getting those Golden Globe nominations and having the ratings
Speaker 1: sort of start to soar, it did start to have
Speaker 1: a really big cultural impact. Now and I think from
Speaker 1: now until when we come back on the air, we
Speaker 1: were I remember being worried about, like are people going
Speaker 1: to come back and watch it? It only sort of
Speaker 1: grew in anticipation. So this whole episode was set all
Speaker 1: that up. But anyway, new directions go to sectionals and
Speaker 1: this is some big ship happening. We have baby Gate,
Speaker 1: we have some where Will and Terry's marriage and so
Speaker 1: maybe finally getting caught. M you know, m h finally,
Speaker 1: my goodness. I think it's easier to just go through
Speaker 1: this episode as is this this week, because it kind
Speaker 1: of all intertwines and is like wrapping everything upste So
Speaker 1: in the beginning, Rachel is suspicious of Puck Um and
Speaker 1: Quinn because when Quinn slips um, Puck rushes to quinside
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, because everybody else knows in the glee
Speaker 1: club that Puck is the baby daddy, but they don't
Speaker 1: want to tell Rachel because obviously we know who she's
Speaker 1: gonna who. She'll trout mouth, which is this is the
Speaker 1: birth of trout mouth, real trouting mouth, Mr Cordy Um,
Speaker 1: and you say already says that she's a total trout mouth,
Speaker 1: and chill tell Finn. I remember Rachel, what's happening you?
Speaker 1: You are the most vocal about Rachel in the Black Club.
Speaker 1: I feel like already is definitely like says it how
Speaker 1: it is. Um. I mean we all kind of said
Speaker 1: how it is, to be honest, we're all very crass. Um. Uh. So.
Speaker 1: I remember shooting this telephone scene and getting a little
Speaker 1: like nervous because I had to move switch the phone
Speaker 1: we weren't really talking to you obviously, and so there's
Speaker 1: all this stuff and you're walking, and Andrew Mitchell's walking behind,
Speaker 1: like backwards with us, and we're walking down the hallways.
Speaker 1: If you don't get it right, you gotta do it again.
Speaker 1: And I was like, hu, it was one long walk
Speaker 1: and talk and squishing three people into one frame on
Speaker 1: the camera was also very hard. They're like, you guys
Speaker 1: got to get closer together. We're like, we're walking. But
Speaker 1: it was so brilliant how they edit it so it
Speaker 1: looked like not everybody was together and there was. It
Speaker 1: was and I'm going party line. Yeah, this is also
Speaker 1: a really big moment. And I don't even know if
Speaker 1: at the time when they wrote this, if it was
Speaker 1: more anything more than just a joke. But when Santana's like,
Speaker 1: sex is not dating, and then Britney's like, if it
Speaker 1: were Santana and I would be dating, and everyone pauses.
Speaker 1: So good, and then it carries on. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: very good. Um, So Emma tells Mr Shoe that she
Speaker 1: pushed back her and Ken's wedding so she can make
Speaker 1: it to sectional and Ken doesn't have to happen in
Speaker 1: broad daylight it's it's yeah. She lies, she lies. She
Speaker 1: was saying that it's Ken took it really well, cut
Speaker 1: to Ken not taking it well. So we mark that
Speaker 1: for later in the episode. And that's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: um so, and then we go to Rachel freaking out
Speaker 1: um Quinn by asking about the genetic testing up to
Speaker 1: no good. So Quinn goes to Park and says that
Speaker 1: he has to get tested because it's something it's wrong.
Speaker 1: It won't go the plan won't go in um the
Speaker 1: way it's supposed to, because the whole thing is is
Speaker 1: that the testing has to be for a Jewish baby.
Speaker 1: And so she's saying, well, if if she gets worried
Speaker 1: about this and goes to Puck, then Puck's the baby daddy, right,
Speaker 1: that's her whole master plan, right, okay, all right? Then Mr.
Speaker 1: She was the choir room giving them like a pep talk,
Speaker 1: saying MS his replacement for sectionals, and oh my god, Brittany.
Speaker 1: Brittany says, she's the one that made me talk. They
Speaker 1: made me talk to you, and they found out I
Speaker 1: was keeping that bird in my locker. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of bird jokes. We have had bird jokes throughout the season.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of bird jokes. Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is where things It still doesn't sit right with me,
Speaker 1: this whole Mercedes thing. So Mercedes asked Mr Shoe about
Speaker 1: the set list and he can't help them with it,
Speaker 1: and they have to figure it out. And at this point,
Speaker 1: it's like, how did they not know the set list
Speaker 1: what they were doing? Yeah, at this point, hasn't the
Speaker 1: set list already been leaked? Like we know what's happening.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't even know that we asked those
Speaker 1: questions at that point. We absolutely did not. I can
Speaker 1: guarantee you we did not. And then Mercedes is mad
Speaker 1: because they have to have like a solo number, a ballad,
Speaker 1: and Rachel's assuming it's going to be her, and then
Speaker 1: Mercedes is piste off about it. And then this is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things that the show does. Or
Speaker 1: Mercedes like, I'm willing to prove this to you that
Speaker 1: I can do this, And all of a sudden, we
Speaker 1: see her talking to somebody and it's a full band
Speaker 1: with horns and strings, which we justly have No, it's
Speaker 1: never been seen before. They're just sitting in there. She says,
Speaker 1: don't address it. Band keeping, Um, this is the scene.
Speaker 1: I don't know why this is so memorable to me,
Speaker 1: but she's like Rachel says, um, do you think you're
Speaker 1: the best balladeer? And Mercedes is like turns to all
Speaker 1: of us and goes, what the f is a balladeer?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Wait, was that this episode? Yes,
Speaker 1: this is the episode where the famous Dijon moment happened.
Speaker 1: He says, I don't know, I don't know. It's like
Speaker 1: Dejan's online and we let me tell you, we use
Speaker 1: that amongst ourselves for years. I don't know, years, but
Speaker 1: I love that. What's a ballot here? I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: there's so many moments of Mercedes, like the past couple
Speaker 1: of episodes where she is sort of like we're all
Speaker 1: against like Rachel look and Mattress like, yeah, you go
Speaker 1: take the yearbook photo and she's sort of rounding up
Speaker 1: the kids. And it's happened earlier in the season as well,
Speaker 1: where she's always sort of turning back and being like
Speaker 1: guys or it feels like she's sort of our de
Speaker 1: facto leader within the choir room because we're all behind her.
Speaker 1: Yea feels like it's right. Um so Mercedes does, and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I'm not going this number. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was like you saw how ham she was going.
Speaker 1: She did this like every time we watched it or
Speaker 1: she shot it. She was going for it. And in
Speaker 1: the recording studio I remember her saying at the end
Speaker 1: after recording it, she literally like almost fainted because it's
Speaker 1: such a hard number. Um. She did an amazing job.
Speaker 1: That was real life us cheering and hooting and hollering.
Speaker 1: That was definitely us actually responding to Amber singing a song,
Speaker 1: because obviously that's what it is. But also I got
Speaker 1: to see Amber do this um in twenties fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 1: one of those um in on the West End in
Speaker 1: and it was jaw dropping it. It's amazing, I mean
Speaker 1: truly amazing. They do listen to this. I mean this
Speaker 1: is one of those moments where none of us were
Speaker 1: acting like you see tears in Chris's eyes like it
Speaker 1: was we were so proud. Yeah, it was unbelievable to like, oh,
Speaker 1: we know someone who can pract this right right that
Speaker 1: Mike drop. I also did notice too, or I could.
Speaker 1: I could be nitpicky, but when she's doing some of
Speaker 1: the runs, the really complicated runs, at the end, she's
Speaker 1: covering her face with her hair. She's like going down
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, she doesn't know the run.
Speaker 1: She probably did a bunch and she probably didn't know
Speaker 1: what what happens. I vaguely remember her telling me that
Speaker 1: where she's like, I don't know which version of the run,
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna that's how good she is. She's like,
Speaker 1: let me just try a bunch of them and then
Speaker 1: you pick the best one. Oh my god. Okay. Rachel
Speaker 1: obviously agrees that she should do the ballot. Do the ballot,
Speaker 1: be the ballot, do the ballad so um. Finn tells Rachel.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, that was pretty cool. That must have
Speaker 1: been also, um hard to do. In this intimate moment, um,
Speaker 1: Rachel decides, Okay, well you can't. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: sit back and watch you suffer. Um and she says,
Speaker 1: when you care about someone, you can't sit around and
Speaker 1: watch them suffer when you know you can do something
Speaker 1: about it. Well, Rachel, okay, um. She decides to teal
Speaker 1: Finn about Quentin Puck and you know, this is one
Speaker 1: of those moments where she should have had a friend
Speaker 1: like Jenna. I said, this is not your story to tell.
Speaker 1: Is not your story to tell? That is right. Rachel
Speaker 1: broke the cardinal rule. This is not your story to tell.
Speaker 1: And and with that we cut back to the choir
Speaker 1: room where there's a big fight going down and um,
Speaker 1: finn Is is punching uh Puck and this was stunt
Speaker 1: doubles right, yeah, but also like Puck didn't really suffer
Speaker 1: any bruises. Afterwards, he like just fine for sexual uh,
Speaker 1: and Quinn's crying in between them and he's like, tell
Speaker 1: me if it's true. And obviously we get to see
Speaker 1: some of the Coreys and Diana is amazing acting chops
Speaker 1: in the scene, and you just like, are so compelled
Speaker 1: by Corey. I'm just like every time you watch him
Speaker 1: do something like that, you're like, I believe you one
Speaker 1: thousand percent right now. Yeah, He's so good, so good.
Speaker 1: So Finn's does his normal starm out, but this is
Speaker 1: a bit more dramatic, and he says, screw this done,
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. He's done, and we are downically
Speaker 1: club member and remember we have to have twelve. So
Speaker 1: then Rachel Rachel apologizes to Quinn, and Quinn asked Rachel
Speaker 1: to leave, and then put comes in to like comfort
Speaker 1: her and says like he wants to be a good father. Um,
Speaker 1: but she's like, nah, I want to do this on
Speaker 1: my own. And is also this is the moment where
Speaker 1: I also realized that Puck's face looked completely Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: curious why they missed that. Maybe they just didn't want
Speaker 1: to have bruises for sectionals, so they just chose to
Speaker 1: have pu come out unscathed. Fans a big guy, but
Speaker 1: he throws a weak punch, is what we're getting at.
Speaker 1: He missed. He hit the floor a lot. So we
Speaker 1: are going to sectionals finally, and we see the bus
Speaker 1: that we all fought for and already is getting loaded
Speaker 1: into the bus and oh my gosh, Jacob and Israel
Speaker 1: shows up. He's replaced Finch and it's immediately next to Rachel,
Speaker 1: which is very funny. Window. Um, Kevin, you said in
Speaker 1: the bts of this that you're excited to go to sectionals.
Speaker 1: We feel like we've been talking about it for ages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. That was where you know, mirroring the characters
Speaker 1: in real life sort of happened where right, And yeah,
Speaker 1: in real life we were growing as actors and friends
Speaker 1: and co workers and becoming a real cohesive group and
Speaker 1: learning all of these numbers, and the glee club was
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, and it was all leading to
Speaker 1: getting to perform on a real stage in a real theater.
Speaker 1: And so in real life we just got to go
Speaker 1: to Glendo and performed this at the Alex Theater. That's right,
Speaker 1: this is our first big competition. Um, this was like
Speaker 1: by the time we got to season four, three or four,
Speaker 1: we like, we're like, oh, sectionals, regionals, smoke Stig, we
Speaker 1: got this, but this was like huge. This felt like
Speaker 1: massive yet audience extras, judges, the whole thing. This was
Speaker 1: also one of those things where Brad it was great
Speaker 1: Brad feltchick was directing because this then laid the groundwork
Speaker 1: for how we shot all of these competitions from here
Speaker 1: on out. Because there were such big days, big theaters,
Speaker 1: managing a lot of background actors and crew and us.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get too creative. Things just needed to here's
Speaker 1: how the day is going to go exactly. Yes, And um,
Speaker 1: I think it was later we well about Brad Beaker
Speaker 1: with his big white board of shot lists. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that Brad Beaker would come in with this big
Speaker 1: like poster board like presentation style and write all the
Speaker 1: shots we needed and he would literally cross them off
Speaker 1: with the marker every time we got one. Um, it
Speaker 1: was kind of like yeah, yeah, it was satisfying and
Speaker 1: also just very Yeah. It was that structured in methodical,
Speaker 1: that's a good word. Okay, So we're we are excited
Speaker 1: to be there, we are excited, and we find out
Speaker 1: that we're going last. Do you remember this scene where
Speaker 1: we're shooting in the in the little like lobby upstairs.
Speaker 1: I remember shooting that so vividly in my brain that, Um,
Speaker 1: that scene. I'm not sure why, maybe just because we
Speaker 1: were on set, like on location. Yeah, this whole experience
Speaker 1: seems like that. I remember being really excited for the
Speaker 1: next scene of where I'm ramming myself into the wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's still because we did two scenes
Speaker 1: up here. We did the scene of um, we're feelings
Speaker 1: that we're going last, and then we go watch then
Speaker 1: perform and Jane Adams Academy does and I'm telling you
Speaker 1: and proud Mary and um, so we know that the
Speaker 1: set list has been leaked. Then we come back in
Speaker 1: the same place and that's all right. He's ramming himself
Speaker 1: into the wall and Emma is on a phone call
Speaker 1: with Will telling him like, uh, this is what happened.
Speaker 1: We need help. And I was so excited to do
Speaker 1: that because I just thought that scene was hilarious, all
Speaker 1: of us losing our minds in the background. That's right, Well,
Speaker 1: that is true. We did get to play and it
Speaker 1: was fun to have Jama as our like little leader. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Will, Will's pissed, right, He's like okay, but he's like,
Speaker 1: I know just what to do. Um. So first she's
Speaker 1: going to go confront and he says, you crossed the line.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say idly by anymore. I'm going to
Speaker 1: expose you for the fraud that you are um. And
Speaker 1: Sue says, bring it on, William. I'm reasonably confident that
Speaker 1: you will be adding revenge the long list of things
Speaker 1: you're no good at, right next to being married. Um,
Speaker 1: it's very good. Then Will says, don't And then Susy
Speaker 1: running a high schoolglie club and finding a hairstyle that
Speaker 1: doesn't make you look like a lesbian. I love you
Speaker 1: like a sister. I love when Jane does think where
Speaker 1: she's smiling, but it's like an evil smile because the
Speaker 1: rest of that scene she's just like smiling and does
Speaker 1: little kiss. It's um, you know, I was mad. Had
Speaker 1: a really easy episode because he's doing phone acting the
Speaker 1: rest of the episode. Until doing phone acting he did,
Speaker 1: he had some pretty easy shots. He probably could have
Speaker 1: done them all in one sitting and that would have
Speaker 1: been yeah exactly. Jane came up with a lovely like
Speaker 1: a sister line. I don't know, I don't think so
Speaker 1: I'll just talk to her about that. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 1: to ask um so. And then Will it's like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go save the day. And he goes to
Speaker 1: find Will sorry Finn in the locker room and gives
Speaker 1: him a the good old Mr Shoe pep talk that
Speaker 1: this was a nice circular moment from the pilot. He
Speaker 1: goes back to the locker room, has his one on
Speaker 1: one with him and now his status has really changed
Speaker 1: in the school in terms of now he's a leader
Speaker 1: of the glee club as well. M M, that's me.
Speaker 1: Talks him into it and well, and Finn understandably he's
Speaker 1: not having it, and he's like, well, sometimes it sucks
Speaker 1: to be special, right, And no, I didn't own so
Speaker 1: Finn takes him up and it's going to be the good,
Speaker 1: good old leader that he is and show up and
Speaker 1: and yeah, we hope. So Emma, sweet sweet Emma confronts
Speaker 1: the other choir directors, satisfying is this. I mean it's
Speaker 1: the cutest. She's just the cutest. Emma confronts the choir director.
Speaker 1: She's like, I know what you did. That's my summary
Speaker 1: of it. I know what you did. And then it
Speaker 1: makes him feel really bad because it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: really special to be able to see them actually win
Speaker 1: on their own, because they're talented enough to do it.
Speaker 1: Educators stunned into silence. And then we see we here
Speaker 1: don't stop all even done by the Haverrbrook and um
Speaker 1: the choir a deaf choir, and there are audience members
Speaker 1: with tears, tears, and everybody's very very upset. So Rachel
Speaker 1: calls a good meeting and we're in the great scene.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this this scene sucked right to film. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I think it's because we were in there for hours.
Speaker 1: Were there, We were in there all day. It was
Speaker 1: a full day in this one set and there was
Speaker 1: no way I remember it was so hot and there
Speaker 1: was no way to block it out because they built
Speaker 1: this really great set and you sort of needed us
Speaker 1: all spread out because it would have been easier to
Speaker 1: shoot if we were all just in one position, but
Speaker 1: because we were all different places, we had to turn
Speaker 1: the camera exactly exactly. I remember this being a very
Speaker 1: watching the scene. I think the scene is great likeness,
Speaker 1: big scene. It's also it's an important scene, so I
Speaker 1: get it now. I don't think back then I was
Speaker 1: really as um understanding. But we're like, get us out
Speaker 1: of year um. So Rachel calls a meeting and and
Speaker 1: then she's like, no, Mercedes, you're supposed to do the ballot,
Speaker 1: and Mercedes is like, no, Rachel, I was supposed to
Speaker 1: do the ballot, but now you need to do it.
Speaker 1: Why did she say you need to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't remember the intention behind it. She's just saying, if
Speaker 1: anyone could do a ballot on the fly, Rachel. What
Speaker 1: I don't like is Mercedes having to be like your
Speaker 1: the best singer, because they're both incredible in different ways.
Speaker 1: And well, there's everybody right and yeah, but we need
Speaker 1: to say it like that. I know, alright, So then
Speaker 1: Finn come before Finn comes in. It's also a really
Speaker 1: nice moment where like, uh, Santana, It's like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're saying like who leaked the set list? And
Speaker 1: sim was like, look, if you tell anybody I said
Speaker 1: this like a lie, but like I really like Glee Club.
Speaker 1: It makes me happy. That was a really nice time,
Speaker 1: Rachel saying like, I believe you. Yeah, it was. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of bonding, trauma bonding going on in
Speaker 1: this scene. Yeah. So Finn comes in like the good
Speaker 1: guy and with a stack of sheet paper and it's like, look,
Speaker 1: we got this, I have the song. I know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do and rounds up the best dancers and
Speaker 1: it's like, we'll follow whatever you did, because we're good
Speaker 1: when we're loose. He's pulling the Mr. Shoe and I
Speaker 1: have goose bumps. It was so sweet. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: him come in and save the day and also not
Speaker 1: be fine with Puck and Quinn because Puck tries to like, hey,
Speaker 1: are we cool and he's like, no, we're not, which
Speaker 1: is also nice. Yeah, yeah, I know why would be?
Speaker 1: So then we pop to New Directions performing form performing
Speaker 1: Rachel's doing Don't Random My Parade from Funny Girl, which
Speaker 1: is a full three six as well. How wild in
Speaker 1: the same episode. I know that's right in Mercedes Amber
Speaker 1: and Leah. That's really funny. Um, Leah kills this number
Speaker 1: for the first time. We'll see this multiple times after UM,
Speaker 1: you know in other seasons. But that's right. We did
Speaker 1: do it on the tours. She did it at the Tony's. Um,
Speaker 1: this was crazy. So this begins the rain don't random
Speaker 1: parade but okay, so Rachel kills it. Leah kills this
Speaker 1: number obviously, and then we get into the surprise number
Speaker 1: that Finn has come up with that we so magically
Speaker 1: figure out and look so synchronized and great doing It's
Speaker 1: you can't always get what you want by the rolling Stones,
Speaker 1: because Mr You says to Finn in the locker room,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can't always get what you want planting the scenes.
Speaker 1: I wonder if anybody caught that. I'm sure I mean
Speaker 1: earlier though, like when he says that, when Will says it, that,
Speaker 1: does anybody actually kept that? And I forgot what songs
Speaker 1: we did in this and then We'll said it. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, that's what we did. I did too.
Speaker 1: I thought this was the Journey. The Journey mash up
Speaker 1: almost and then I was like, no, you're wrong, Ja.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I'm able to kind of distinguish
Speaker 1: what numbers we did most of the time by the
Speaker 1: dresses we were wearing, because that was I was able
Speaker 1: to establish which competition show we were in, or where
Speaker 1: we shot at, or what we were doing at the time. Um.
Speaker 1: So I also thought it was interesting we don't show
Speaker 1: what we do Somebody to Love as the last number.
Speaker 1: I also think if you noticed, they don't ever show
Speaker 1: the balcony in the theater, and we do that the
Speaker 1: rest of the time. I think we might show the balcony.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I'm wondering. Yeah, gets like the
Speaker 1: first two rows of the balcony and then they fill
Speaker 1: out with those crazy little bubble actions. The blow up.
Speaker 1: People didn't do that at this time, like maybe to
Speaker 1: save the budget, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: do think there were dummies in the last row of
Speaker 1: the orchestra. Yeah, I think I do think there were
Speaker 1: those blow up There were definitely dummies in this one,
Speaker 1: because this is where um, isn't this for Dan? I
Speaker 1: like bit it. Afterwards she ran up the aisle and
Speaker 1: like fell, no, no, I think that was I think
Speaker 1: that was regionals. Did you also notice that Leah had
Speaker 1: a like a bandage on the side of her leg
Speaker 1: or something in one of these and one of the
Speaker 1: shots and the next shot it's gone, like she got
Speaker 1: hurt or something. I don't know, she might have caught herself.
Speaker 1: So then we're listening into the judges. We're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what the judges are saying. They're deliberating. Um.
Speaker 1: Eve comes to apologize to us, which is also cool,
Speaker 1: and like, I'm in the scene with Eve, I remember
Speaker 1: that she was very nice, um. And it's like the
Speaker 1: only time we had really met her. Um. And then
Speaker 1: the judges Ana camp a camp was so good and
Speaker 1: Rod Remington of course, and um uh it was I
Speaker 1: mean the judge judges room is very funny, are very funny,
Speaker 1: and it's always a funny bit also going on going
Speaker 1: forward from these competition episodes about who are going to
Speaker 1: be the judges and do they care? Most of them
Speaker 1: they don't even really care. But it's a nice little
Speaker 1: funny moment. But he tries to apologize to the judges.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that, yes, And it's too late, It's
Speaker 1: too late, right, Yes, I remember like being there and
Speaker 1: filming that and trying not to laugh. Rod Remington wasn't
Speaker 1: that the same day as the day we shot? It
Speaker 1: was all that. That was all one set, so the
Speaker 1: judges room, um, and then the green room, the very
Speaker 1: long day set that was the same day. It was
Speaker 1: the same set, and I remember being very smoky and hot.
Speaker 1: But we were in that um that little like hallway
Speaker 1: and I was like, how are we all going to
Speaker 1: fit in this little hall way here? But we did?
Speaker 1: And um, yes, Rod Remington is very funny and um,
Speaker 1: Eve was like I remember seeing the pop print tattoo
Speaker 1: on her like jazz and it's like it's like very iconomy.
Speaker 1: I don't stare at her, don't stare at her. Boom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was so star struck. I was. I had a
Speaker 1: really hard time, which is like not surprising. Um. And
Speaker 1: now Ian, Brad and Ryan are starting to wrap up
Speaker 1: most of the season storylines obviously because this could be
Speaker 1: the yeah, because originally this was the season one finale
Speaker 1: and then Fox ordered the back nine to make a
Speaker 1: complete twenty two episode season. So Mr Shoe goes home, well,
Speaker 1: he's getting ready for Emma's wedding, and he tells Terry
Speaker 1: that he doesn't love her anymore because she's like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to therapy, I'm working on myself. And he's like,
Speaker 1: I hope that works out for you, but like it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work out good for you. And then when
Speaker 1: he shows up about the wedding, he finds out that
Speaker 1: can dumped Emma because of him. And here we go,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I am a question this, you know,
Speaker 1: hall that they have their wedding, And wasn't it supposed
Speaker 1: to be a small wedding right? And yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a big room and I'm just for dramatic. How long
Speaker 1: was she sitting there? Two? Because like there's nobody there
Speaker 1: and she's fully glammed up in her dress. How it
Speaker 1: was he? Did he not get the text saying it's
Speaker 1: called off? Everybody else did? Yeah, it was interesting. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't going to the church. He was just
Speaker 1: going to the reception, and nobody had made it to
Speaker 1: the reception because they were all at the church where
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, it doesn't matter, so m I says,
Speaker 1: and Will's like, well, you know you were doing it
Speaker 1: for the kids, obviously, and she's like, yeah, I if
Speaker 1: I was doing it for the kids, but I was
Speaker 1: doing it for you and uh. And then Emma says
Speaker 1: that she's leaving because of both Kennan one and she's like,
Speaker 1: I can't look at him and I can't look at you,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's all too much. It's all too much,
Speaker 1: was like. And then she gets up and leaves, and
Speaker 1: he looks sort of like he's like I just left
Speaker 1: my wife and like stops her, and she's like, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's why this can't work out. And there's like this
Speaker 1: beautiful longing moment where she leaves and see him sit
Speaker 1: with that and like, what am I gonna do? I
Speaker 1: just want them to be together. I just want them together.
Speaker 1: Um okay. And then and then we we shoot two
Speaker 1: principal Figians telling Sue that she is no longer the
Speaker 1: coach of the Cheerios for the set list and I've
Speaker 1: genuinely felt scared face. I beg your pardon, I beg
Speaker 1: your pardon. That was her. That was her response, Like completely,
Speaker 1: how good is she because you've never seen her stunned
Speaker 1: really and she's in full shock. She's just in It's dynamic,
Speaker 1: it's dynamic. And then she says, which is I think
Speaker 1: one of the most famous lines of the season. I think,
Speaker 1: I don't. Do you think this was something that we
Speaker 1: were most compelled by, or do you think this was
Speaker 1: a very popular I don't know. There's no way enough,
Speaker 1: but we love it. Says you're about to bore the
Speaker 1: Sue Sylvester Spress destination hard hard Um. I thought was
Speaker 1: incredible in the scene managing the big you know, wilds
Speaker 1: sitting there and Shock and Sue was going crazy and
Speaker 1: he for once, it's sort of stepping up and being like,
Speaker 1: no this, I didn't believe it, and now I do,
Speaker 1: and now I've seen it, and you're suspended from the school.
Speaker 1: And then she's like, well, I'm going to go down
Speaker 1: to Boka and get a tan uh huh. And Mr
Speaker 1: Shoe was reinstated because he calls the board, the Ohio
Speaker 1: State Board, and Sue's back A Shoe's back in. Sue
Speaker 1: and Schue, Sue and Chou Um. So we find out
Speaker 1: now and I had to actually remember. I was like,
Speaker 1: did we win this one? I didn't remember either. Did
Speaker 1: we win this um? And I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we won because I remember this scene when we hide
Speaker 1: the drove. It also took so long, we don't find
Speaker 1: what happened? I know, I know that was a weird one.
Speaker 1: You're like, did they win? Um? And then we do
Speaker 1: want life with stuck without you? Which I love this number.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if everybody gets this number, but
Speaker 1: this was ezact Wly, our choreographer and Brooke. Their idea
Speaker 1: was to incorporate all of the like most iconic numbers
Speaker 1: or dance moves or things that we did from other
Speaker 1: numbers throughout the season. This was like a nod to
Speaker 1: all of those for Mr Shoe and it was It
Speaker 1: was really nostalgic because I was like, we remember looking
Speaker 1: at everybody and being like, this could be it. This
Speaker 1: could be the last number we ever do together. Did
Speaker 1: you catch all the references? There was pushes, what single,
Speaker 1: ladies hate on me? Say a little prayer? Uh not
Speaker 1: my last name? Last name? Yes, last name. There were
Speaker 1: the boys and girls mash up yep, that's right, yeah,
Speaker 1: most of my hair I think most of the hair
Speaker 1: one was in there as well. It was les sweet.
Speaker 1: I really really liked that. It was a great way
Speaker 1: to do that, and that was all Zack with And
Speaker 1: then we get to the last and best scene that
Speaker 1: was not originally scripted like this, Um, what they weren't
Speaker 1: supposed to kiss originally? Oh, that's right. So that during
Speaker 1: my life Let's Stuck Without You, it's cut up into
Speaker 1: a montage between the kids dancing and Will running after
Speaker 1: Emma actually's leaving the school. And then I think they're
Speaker 1: originally just supposed to, like chase after look at each other.
Speaker 1: And then Brad Falchuck said he pulled Matt aside and
Speaker 1: was said, kiss Jama and to give her like an
Speaker 1: authentic reaction. And so that was it. That was real.
Speaker 1: I have challenge and that beautifully lit hallway and I'm
Speaker 1: glad they used that one because that was And then
Speaker 1: and we had to come back with is you have
Speaker 1: to know if they exactly and then we have to
Speaker 1: see regionals I mean, and that's it, and then we're
Speaker 1: off the air for four months to come back. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, fingers crossed. Okay, so let's do some Tardy takes.
Speaker 1: Um we did do it. That is sectionals. Um Okay,
Speaker 1: Kevin Tardy takes cringe moments A K A cheese? Oh wow?
Speaker 1: What did I say? A k a auchiese? What is
Speaker 1: your pick? I mean, I think j b I saying
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get into Rachel's pants is pretty suspect.
Speaker 1: And also, um, the judges comments were pretty wild, like
Speaker 1: I don't know how those deaf kids got in. They
Speaker 1: weren't singing, they were like honking, and that's terrible. That's
Speaker 1: Anna Camp's character. She's like, get off the stage. You're terrible,
Speaker 1: and you're making peas comfortable. Her performance again was excellent.
Speaker 1: Um I think Also, yeah, Rod Remingtons saying no hold
Speaker 1: on a second candy, those havor Brook kids twice had
Speaker 1: me reaching for my handkerchief, and those Jane Adam girls,
Speaker 1: how'd it going on? In all the right Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was not um worst worst dance move or best dance move.
Speaker 1: I gotta say the call back to some of those
Speaker 1: number those weird numbers in my life with Stuck without You,
Speaker 1: like the push it humping that we did again we
Speaker 1: had to see again, which was weird. I think on
Speaker 1: the flip mode on the flip side or another note,
Speaker 1: I don't know the saying. I think that was my
Speaker 1: favorite because it was nice. It was nice to see
Speaker 1: was wrapped into that last song and they did not
Speaker 1: fit with the song, and it was great, fair enough.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite songs song? Oh, my gosh, I
Speaker 1: gotta say obviously, like I think. Um, the Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: number is a great number. It didn't quite have the
Speaker 1: effect on me that other numbers do have on me.
Speaker 1: I will be honest. Maybe I would say right on
Speaker 1: my parade, Yeah, I think, and I'm telling you and
Speaker 1: right my Parade tie. Oh duh, that's right. Amber's number two. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the two balladeers they win today Best performance by
Speaker 1: prop m. Did you notice that Hitchcock had a pretzel
Speaker 1: and it dropped in the middle of the scene. Did
Speaker 1: it drop? I remember the pretzel. I just didn't see
Speaker 1: it drop. That's funny. What about the trophy? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the trophy? You're right, You're right? Um. Um. Should we
Speaker 1: do some best lines real quick? Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do what's your favorite line? Sue? Uh running a
Speaker 1: high school coolie club and finding a hairstyle that doesn't
Speaker 1: make you look like a lesbian. I mean I think
Speaker 1: that's that. And you're about to board the Susi Vester
Speaker 1: Express Destination horror. I think those are again for Just
Speaker 1: do it, Jenna. Let's talk about some should we found
Speaker 1: on TikTok real quick talk to Connor. Hess Um posted
Speaker 1: a TikTok of him saying, I watched GLEEZ so much
Speaker 1: it burned into my TV screen. And so when the
Speaker 1: TV it has like a blank screen, you see Glee
Speaker 1: into the background. Stop. That's really good. I wish you'd
Speaker 1: be like and we're gifting you a new TV, but no,
Speaker 1: it we're not. Um. That's amazing and the fact that
Speaker 1: you watch it that much is hilarious and that he's
Speaker 1: that shot. Thanks for sending it in. Yeah, that's it,
Speaker 1: that's our show. That's it. We're done after this, see
Speaker 1: you guys never. I'm just kidding. That was awesome. I
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