Speaker 1: Oh, Sunday a Friday.
Speaker 2: Great, It's been awesome. It's been like, you know, a
Speaker 2: couple of years of not really Sunday because I've been coming.
Speaker 2: Even the pandemic shut down Sundance for the most part.
Speaker 2: So like last year it was very mellow and relaxing
Speaker 2: and like nobody was here. But this year it's back
Speaker 2: to full speed regular Sundance movies already like selling for
Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars and it's like, oh cool, that's a festival,
Speaker 2: but no, super fun.
Speaker 3: Do you just go to movies every day?
Speaker 2: No, you know, like I've been trying to see a
Speaker 2: lot more movies this time, but it's it's so hard,
Speaker 2: like you just end up running into people and there's
Speaker 2: parties and there's events and there's gathering, so like, I
Speaker 2: mean there's depth. There have definitely been Sundances where I've
Speaker 2: come and only seen like two movies. Let's see this time,
Speaker 2: I've seen four, which you know is not great, like
Speaker 2: I would love to see more, but Sundances one Like
Speaker 2: there are festivals that I go to where I just
Speaker 2: sit and watch movies, like that's all I'm there for.
Speaker 2: But Sundance is such like we have the same group
Speaker 2: of friends that come every year, and I mean it's
Speaker 2: a huge group of friends. It's coming of always rotating.
Speaker 2: So it's like some people I see every year, some
Speaker 2: people haven't seen for six years, and then they come back,
Speaker 2: and so it's like it ends up being much more
Speaker 2: of a social thing than and you know, it's a
Speaker 2: networking social thing. And then it is a movie thing.
Speaker 2: But of course then we're like constantly talking about what
Speaker 2: people have seen. So like everyone, like last night I
Speaker 2: came home and like four other people in the house
Speaker 2: had seen the same movie I had, and other people
Speaker 2: had seen it before and hated it. We're all debating
Speaker 2: and arguing and screaming at each other and talking about
Speaker 2: what we think is gonna be like. And then next
Speaker 2: year we'll get together we'll be like I told you
Speaker 2: see how you know, it's so fun.
Speaker 3: It's like I was gonna say, you're in Heaven's right now.
Speaker 2: It's just face to geek out about film, you know,
Speaker 2: and like and argue and and like yeah yeah, And
Speaker 2: then we play charades, like we host a charades party
Speaker 2: every year. I mean it started as just a pasta
Speaker 2: party that our friends who have the house do.
Speaker 1: What's a pasta party.
Speaker 2: Well, they just mean they'd make like a whole, like
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of pasta and invite a bunch of
Speaker 2: people that that's fun, dance over to our house for pasta.
Speaker 2: And then when Alex and I got a lot.
Speaker 1: More questions about pasta party, I do other people do
Speaker 1: pasta parties? You're acting as though pasta party is like
Speaker 1: a common thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't start this party, so our
Speaker 2: friend I guess maybe that's a common thing, or maybe
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's weird one type of pasta.
Speaker 2: Or Okay, well here's here's the I like to point.
Speaker 4: Danielle has not perked up at all during the conversation
Speaker 4: about film. You mentioned pasta once, and she's awake, instantly awake.
Speaker 2: How you meet a pasta? Okay, well let me tell you.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: When we first heard about this pasta party, we were like,
Speaker 2: this is great because you know, we had come to Sundance,
Speaker 2: we had friends who were coming and whatever. This is
Speaker 2: like eight years ago, nine years ago. And so our
Speaker 2: friend's our friend Ashley, who like is the main host
Speaker 2: of this house and this group of friends. She was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we have our pasta party. We were like great and
Speaker 2: we went and like the pasta was like canned pasta,
Speaker 2: like you know, you take the sauce and you opened up.
Speaker 2: So the next year Alex was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm doing my four or five hour sauce. We're gonna
Speaker 2: like if we're hosting, because then we became like co
Speaker 2: host because then it was like our house and we
Speaker 2: became so Alex was like, I'm taking the but no,
Speaker 2: the problem is we have like over one hundred people
Speaker 2: show up at this party, like throughout the night. It's
Speaker 2: like like this year we had like one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty RSVPs or whatever, and so like, no one like
Speaker 2: the pasta is like carbo load, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like it's not about like the quest. So Alex
Speaker 2: spent one year trying to like make her sauce and
Speaker 2: then realize like, oh, there's just too many people to care,
Speaker 2: and nobody cares. They're here for like pasta. The garlic
Speaker 2: bread is a bigger hit than the pasta. And then
Speaker 2: what happened is Alex and I started doing running charades
Speaker 2: games during the pasta party, and now that's like why
Speaker 2: people come to our house, Like the word has gotten out,
Speaker 2: so like we've become a thing and it's the greatest.
Speaker 2: I mean we went until three in the morning playing
Speaker 2: running trades.
Speaker 4: Still three in the nine are people taking uber and
Speaker 4: lyft home after this much pasta?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, good because you don't want to.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, you can't drive when you're No
Speaker 2: one drives at Sunday. So everyone's either walking or uber
Speaker 2: lifting or they have like shuttles.
Speaker 1: It's a whole I still really like this idea of
Speaker 1: pasta party. I would I think I would just encourage
Speaker 1: people to bring There are all different types of post
Speaker 1: yeah for sure, Like we've got spaghetti covered, we could
Speaker 1: use a ravioli, we need a penny.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I did. That's why I've done that,
Speaker 2: like a real pasta party for like my like I
Speaker 2: had my birthday. This is like my thirty ninth birthday.
Speaker 2: We rented a cabin and you know, like I used
Speaker 2: to do all the time for my birthdays and have
Speaker 2: a big group of friends and this was the legendary one.
Speaker 2: We made our own pasta, so we spent we woke
Speaker 2: up in the morning, we all made pasta. We made
Speaker 2: different noodles and then Alex made two different sauces. She
Speaker 2: did like a mushroom cream sauce and then like a
Speaker 2: red sauce. Took all day, so then by the you know,
Speaker 2: the pasta's been drying out all day and then cook it.
Speaker 2: And that was probably the greatest my life, Like it
Speaker 2: was so much fun because it was like by the
Speaker 2: end of when you actually sit down to eat, you've
Speaker 2: all worked all day together to make fasta, including the kids.
Speaker 2: Like it is so much and we've after that, we
Speaker 2: did that like maybe one other time, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of work, but it's so worth it.
Speaker 2: Like that is Yes, that's like a.
Speaker 3: Real Daniel's party. You just you just found Daniels. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, it's a hosta luck party.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, Okay, we know when we know how
Speaker 4: to get Daniel out of the house now, multiple types
Speaker 4: of pasta.
Speaker 3: And fred sticks.
Speaker 1: I'm not hard to please.
Speaker 2: I just invite her to an olive garden the same
Speaker 2: level of excitement.
Speaker 3: That's true, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Ye, Well, when you're here, your family, welcome to Podlets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Danielle Fischel.
Speaker 2: I'm right or strong, and I'm Wilfridlleh.
Speaker 1: So today we are recapping season four, episode six, Janitor Dad.
Speaker 1: It originally aired October twenty fifth, nineteen ninety six. The
Speaker 1: synopsis Sean's father is the new janitor of John Adams High,
Speaker 1: causing Sean significant embarrassing and attention from some new bullies. Also,
Speaker 1: a large mountain man starts working at the Wilderness store.
Speaker 1: That's yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, large mountain man with the staff.
Speaker 4: Named Iszekiel Ezekiel starts large bearded mountain man wait to
Speaker 4: talk about Mickey?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was written by
Speaker 1: Jeff Manel and Guys buckle up for this list of
Speaker 1: guest stars, so many Finny guest stars. Anthony Tyler Quinn
Speaker 1: slowly creeping up to his motorcycle accident as Jonathan Turner
Speaker 1: again only seen in this episode for a few seconds.
Speaker 1: We have Blake Clark returning as Chet Hunter, Sharen Mitchell
Speaker 1: returns as Verna Hunter, and then Jennifer Campbell as Lannie.
Speaker 1: She is a former Miss Hawaiian Tropics International, best known
Speaker 1: as Tia the Calvin Klein Model on three episodes of
Speaker 1: Seinfeld and has three different characters on six episodes of Baywatch.
Speaker 2: So hold on, you said Miss Hawaiian International.
Speaker 1: It's It's the Hawaiians a beauty title. Yes, like the
Speaker 1: Hawaiian Tropics. I think is Sun's green brand. Okay, And
Speaker 1: they do like a swimsuit competition. It's all swimsuit And
Speaker 1: is this still a thing Hawaiian Tropics.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I think so, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I only watched it for the articles, but yes, I
Speaker 4: think that was a big thing in like the eighties
Speaker 4: and the nineties.
Speaker 3: Yes, so I don't know.
Speaker 5: Then we have Mickey Jones as mountain Man Ezekiel best
Speaker 5: knows awesome, Yeah, best known when it comes to acting
Speaker 5: for Total Recall, National Lampoon's Vacation and sling Blade among.
Speaker 2: And then he was in another episode of Boy he was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why I didn't talk to him this episode. He
Speaker 2: comes in the episode when I go to a truck stop, Oh,
Speaker 2: the Nobody's Angel episode, the Girls Singing, He's in that
Speaker 2: truck stop and I spent that entire time hanging out
Speaker 2: with him. I didn't hang out with him this because
Speaker 2: I didn't work with him this week, but that later
Speaker 2: week I spent all my time, like geeking out with
Speaker 2: him because he's like a very really famous musician. He is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was in We'll talking about yea Tin copy Legend,
Speaker 4: his banned Yeah, there was a great, huge Hollywood legend
Speaker 4: in a way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an accomplished drummer playing with Kenny Rogers. And
Speaker 1: then Bob Dylan on his nineteen sixty six controversial and
Speaker 1: now beloved electric tour.
Speaker 2: That's the one we talked about. We spent the whole
Speaker 2: time talking Dylan. It was amazing. He has so many
Speaker 2: stories because he's completely sober. So he was like, he's
Speaker 2: like the guy who remembers everything from that era.
Speaker 1: Is also the drummer on the song Secret Agent Man.
Speaker 1: He sadly passed away in twenty eighteen at the age
Speaker 1: of seventy seven. No, that either, sorry to give.
Speaker 3: It was a nice the nicest human being. Yeah, such
Speaker 3: a nice man.
Speaker 1: And then we have Kevin West as Wally. He's a
Speaker 1: character actor from movies like Gone in sixty Seconds. In Junior,
Speaker 1: we have Andrew Bilbore as Edgar. He has credits like
Speaker 1: Friends Becker and Dexter, so he worked with our friend
Speaker 1: Alex Decero over on Becker and then Willie Garson comes
Speaker 1: back to Boy Meets World, this time as Mervin, one
Speaker 1: of the many characters he would play in Boy Meets
Speaker 1: World slash Girl Meets World. A reminder that he and
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs were very good friends, so any chance they
Speaker 1: had to bring him back, they did.
Speaker 2: Anytime they need a nerd.
Speaker 3: Yep, and I forgot he was in this one. Totally
Speaker 3: forgot he was.
Speaker 2: In this episode. I knew he was in a bunch
Speaker 2: of you know, but yeah, Lenny Spinelley to this, and
Speaker 2: then he marries Scored yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, and then Sean Babb as Doug and Marcus
Speaker 1: Toji as kid number one. He is still working mostly
Speaker 1: in voiceovers for video games. Uh okay, So before we
Speaker 1: jump into the recap, do you guys have some overall thoughts.
Speaker 3: I don't want to start. It wasn't dad.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it.
Speaker 3: I didn't love it either. I didn't love it either.
Speaker 4: I thought the BE story was stronger than the A
Speaker 4: story because it was just random. But I thought at
Speaker 4: times the A story got so caricature and so cartoony.
Speaker 4: I liked the school stuff more than the trailer park stuff.
Speaker 2: But Ezekiel is not cartoony, but it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: That's what I meant.
Speaker 2: I I just know it's all super It's so big everything,
Speaker 2: very big, Yes, very huge.
Speaker 1: Yes, there was a very very obvious note to Scherene
Speaker 1: Mitchell to like totally have a change of character.
Speaker 4: And go huge with everything, and and yeah it's I
Speaker 4: I don't I don't disagree. And I think it's doubly
Speaker 4: jarring because the trailer park has now become the Matthews
Speaker 4: living room. So there's that kind of fish out of
Speaker 4: water feeling a little bit where you're kind of, oh,
Speaker 4: this is this is now the family dynamic, which can
Speaker 4: be a bit jarring, and then when it gets that big,
Speaker 4: that fast, it's doubly.
Speaker 3: Jarring, and you're seeing Corey come in and it's.
Speaker 2: Like a it's like a pilot for the Shawn Hunter
Speaker 2: exactly exactly. That's like an awkward pilot that hasn't gotten
Speaker 2: its feet wet and like he still hasn't like found
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's it's a little hard it.
Speaker 4: This was also so Roseanne was really big at this time.
Speaker 4: This is a big time for the blue collar sitcoms,
Speaker 4: so they might have been trying to kind of give
Speaker 4: it a whole blue collar spin, and it seemed odd.
Speaker 4: I think you're right, it did seem like a pilot
Speaker 4: for the Shawn Hunters show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Blake is great in the episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's always great. Yeah, but I think he manages to
Speaker 2: be a sort of over the top character subtly, like
Speaker 2: he has a way of just I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: part of it is that Chet is performative, so like,
Speaker 2: even when Chet's saying ridiculous things, there's this level of
Speaker 2: irony to it, like I'm just doing my thing. I'm
Speaker 2: a guy. He talks like that, whereas everybody else it's
Speaker 2: like it just feels big and cartoony to a degree
Speaker 2: that really loses the character. Yeah, and then just it
Speaker 2: just kind of the nose, like every beat felt very out. Yes,
Speaker 2: let me drive this home.
Speaker 4: And the thing that was so interesting, and unfortunately they
Speaker 4: were in different scenes at the time about Blake and
Speaker 4: Verna together, was that she was the anchor to his craziness, right,
Speaker 4: and so when they're both kind of that big, it
Speaker 4: washed out a bit for me.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: While jumping into our recap, we start in the wilderness outpost.
Speaker 1: Eric and Allan are helplessly staring at something in the
Speaker 1: store when Eric whispers, Dad, you gotta kick mom out
Speaker 1: or we're going to go bust by tuesday, and we
Speaker 1: cut to Amy, who's telling a customer to put down
Speaker 1: the rock climbing shoes. He's planning to buy a skinny
Speaker 1: man like you should not be rock climbing. Alan laments,
Speaker 1: we ain't gonna make it to Tuesday. Amy sees the
Speaker 1: prospective shoe buyer out, suggesting a nearby yogurt store, and
Speaker 1: as he leaves, she yells gets strawberry. Alan tells Amy
Speaker 1: that the customers have their own mothers who can nag
Speaker 1: them about their rock climbing interests. Amy reminds him he's
Speaker 1: the one who asked for help because the store was
Speaker 1: so busy. Alan responds that she's been a protective mother
Speaker 1: figure for so long it's kind of getting in the
Speaker 1: way of what they used to call sales. Amy brushes
Speaker 1: him off. Then she sees a man testing out a
Speaker 1: fishing spear. She yells, kill fish. You're gonna kill fish.
Speaker 1: He puts down the weapon, defeated. Then we're outside of
Speaker 1: the wilderness outposts. There's a help wanted signposter that now.
Speaker 2: Is when I was already like, I don't know, I
Speaker 2: know the same because I was like, is this really
Speaker 2: this is the first has Amy ever been this way? No, like,
Speaker 2: has she ever been a nagging over the whole point
Speaker 2: of Amy is that she's chill, cool and like kind
Speaker 2: of cool and like accepting of like people being different.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, this was just like, clearly for
Speaker 2: the story point, Yeah, let's make her a nagging mom
Speaker 2: character that she's never been. And it was like, let's
Speaker 2: just go for the I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, especially because just a few episodes ago she was
Speaker 1: the big savior who got them the wilderness snore and
Speaker 1: now she's the obnoxious nagging woman who's ruining their business.
Speaker 2: Exactly and bringing the boys down with her nagging.
Speaker 4: Because the men want to do dangerous things, but of
Speaker 4: course the woman is going to say you shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 1: You're too skinny for that, and then the sign says
Speaker 1: no mothers. And I hope this episode gets better for women.
Speaker 6: Does not.
Speaker 1: At the trailer part, yes, but then, guys, it does
Speaker 1: get better for women when a super skinny, very hot
Speaker 1: crop top woman shows up later who can act like
Speaker 1: a boy, right, who could act like.
Speaker 2: A boy could be one of the boys.
Speaker 4: She's too distracted if she's a girl. That's literally said
Speaker 4: that it's too distracting for her to be a girl.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows the best girls.
Speaker 2: Best girls are boys. Boys with boobs are the best.
Speaker 1: Turn this out posts. During the interviews, there's a group
Speaker 1: of middle aged men. Thank god, there's no women waiting
Speaker 1: to be interviewed by Eric. The first candidate rattles off.
Speaker 2: Guys, every one of them in glasses, every one of
Speaker 2: them like just.
Speaker 3: Another I say it's because it's Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: We won't find anybody who knows outside because we're in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Like, what does that mean? What does that mean? None
Speaker 1: of it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Why would our writers.
Speaker 2: Were really in touch with Pennsylvania. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this. Our Beverly and those living writers were
Speaker 2: really they understand trailer parks. And there's two things our
Speaker 2: writers know. It's trailer park blue collar lifestyle and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Wait, I'd like to throw a fourth and women and strength.
Speaker 2: This this episode brings up the strengths in our writing staff.
Speaker 2: O god, I mean like having two parents from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: The amount of outdoor like it's all hunting it's all
Speaker 2: outdoor people. It is like the most it's like the
Speaker 2: most wilderness friendly place in all America.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yes, that's what you do in Pennsylvania. You hunt,
Speaker 3: you fish, you can't there's mine.
Speaker 2: People like.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 1: So the first candidate rattles off all the things he's
Speaker 1: sold during his time in retail and scoffs at the
Speaker 1: required technical knowledge. He then points to a kayak and asks,
Speaker 1: is this.
Speaker 2: He played a teacher in a previous episode? Yes, this
Speaker 2: guy who's an amazing character actor, He's been in everything
Speaker 2: he's been in this. I just I know his face
Speaker 2: and I see him. So remember we talked.
Speaker 3: About we talked about the fact that the teachers are real.
Speaker 1: Guy framer teacher who like around the corner, We're like,
Speaker 1: what do you know?
Speaker 3: A boy?
Speaker 1: And was like, what the whoa?
Speaker 2: So I wonder So these are all people who have
Speaker 2: like already been on episodes of Boy before. It's like,
Speaker 2: give me the nerds, those nerd guys we like, and
Speaker 2: they just cast them.
Speaker 3: Yes, twelve nerds in a mountain. Man go.
Speaker 1: So he asks is this for like water? And then
Speaker 1: ready to move on, Alan nods towards the other candidates,
Speaker 1: and one of them, played by the Great Willie Garson,
Speaker 1: is touching the spiky rock climbing shoe over and over
Speaker 1: each time saying ow, but never stopping.
Speaker 6: Somebody stopping.
Speaker 3: Somebody stop, somebody stopping.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't he have just still been Lenny Spinelli looking
Speaker 1: for a new job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because all it would have taken was Alan being like, Lenny,
Speaker 2: get out of here, and we would have laughed, and
Speaker 2: it would have been a great joke because it's like, Lenny,
Speaker 2: you're not right for this job. Yeah, Poor Lenny, Poor
Speaker 2: Lenny can't get hired by his old boss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, changing change his name from yeah. Actual Lenny has
Speaker 4: a great job somewhere else. He actually runs the store.
Speaker 2: Now, he runs the stuff, the stuff.
Speaker 1: The stuff. You're right back at the wilderness outpost now.
Speaker 1: After the interviews, Eric says they're never going to find
Speaker 1: someone to fill this position in Philadelphia. Alan agrees they
Speaker 1: need a grizzly Adams mountain man who lives the outdoor life,
Speaker 1: knows this equipment, who needs a job and just to
Speaker 1: wander in here, tee it up, tee it up and
Speaker 1: give it to me, wouldn't you know it? At this
Speaker 1: exact moment, an extremely tall man with a long beard,
Speaker 1: long hair, walking stick, red suspenders in a fringe jacket
Speaker 1: waltz is into the store. He says, I just happened
Speaker 1: to wander in here looking for the yogurt chop because
Speaker 1: I heard they was hiring scoopers. Although I know a
Speaker 1: lot less about yogurt than I do about wilderness equipment.
Speaker 1: I am in powerful need of employment. He is powerful,
Speaker 1: so funny, so good.
Speaker 3: He's so good. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: Eric and Alan stare at each other. Eric breaks the silence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's four doors down on the left. You can't miss it.
Speaker 1: The man starts to leave when Alan yells, wait a minute. Great,
Speaker 1: great delivery.
Speaker 3: And joke and all.
Speaker 4: And if the A story had been far more rooted
Speaker 4: in reality, this would have been fine. It would have
Speaker 4: been great because it would have been ridiculousness on top
Speaker 4: of drama.
Speaker 2: And actually, then all we're really talking about is the
Speaker 2: next scene, the first scene in the trip. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: because because the rest the episode is pretty grounded. And
Speaker 2: I would say that like when Veer and Chet like
Speaker 2: kiss and near the end like that is actually it's
Speaker 2: that next scene where it suddenly becomes the like racky Hunters.
Speaker 4: That's just it's just to him in school is fine.
Speaker 4: When when Check gets to school, that's a great dynamic.
Speaker 2: And Sean was pretty great too, So it's grounded. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it really is.
Speaker 3: Just the first wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just and it's the writing. And she just
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been written as like, let's you didn't need
Speaker 2: the jokes. It could have just been you need a
Speaker 2: job or you know, some version, some slightly less over
Speaker 2: the top version. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really wanted to set up the this for
Speaker 1: this scene that there is now a tornado inside the
Speaker 1: house and Corey wanders into a tornado, and unfortunately for
Speaker 1: the women, the only way they knew how to make
Speaker 1: that happen was for her to be the sole source
Speaker 1: of the tornado conflict, and therefore she needed to be
Speaker 1: high tension. And it's just we have a commercial. Some
Speaker 1: surfer rock acid into the Hunter's trailer. Sean's leaving for
Speaker 1: school when his mom stops him he can't leave until
Speaker 1: he has a healthy breakfast. She whips out a sticky
Speaker 1: bun and a Flintstone's vitamin and Sean exclaims, oh dino.
Speaker 1: She says she'll just pop the sticky bun in the microwave,
Speaker 1: and Chet nervously yells no time for that. Verna asks
Speaker 1: what's in the microwave, and he responds, you can continue
Speaker 1: to ask me suspicious questions, or you can join in
Speaker 1: and embark on a new relationship, one based on trust
Speaker 1: and love and not going in that microwave. Verna immediately
Speaker 1: opens the microwave and pulls out a stack of papers.
Speaker 1: Their bals, their meal.
Speaker 2: He pull out their bills. You must not be from Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Wow, you're not from New York are?
Speaker 1: They're from their meals, Their meals in the microwave, from
Speaker 1: the old relationship. Chet explains, they have set sail on
Speaker 1: the new relationship and nothing's gonna set that ship off course.
Speaker 1: Corey walks in and mentions how nice it is to
Speaker 1: see the two of them back together. Verna tells Corey
Speaker 1: he's sweet, then screams at Chet to find some way
Speaker 1: to pay the bills. Corey offers to wait outside where
Speaker 1: there's a little less tension, but when he opens the
Speaker 1: trailer door, a nearby neighbor yells, you spineless, deadbeat hiding
Speaker 1: the bills in the cat box. I'll kill you. Sean explains,
Speaker 1: to Corey.
Speaker 2: It's this, this is when we've ventured cud C. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's you know, and you can do it if
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, if it's funny enough, you
Speaker 2: can earn it. But this is just isn't funny enough,
Speaker 2: and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, there is also something I went back.
Speaker 4: The thing that went to my head was season one
Speaker 4: of Boy when I was watching this, and there was
Speaker 4: something so grounded in reality about Sean's economic status right
Speaker 4: where it was like, you know, you just mentioned that
Speaker 4: Sean isn't probably going to get a Christmas gift or
Speaker 4: we don't. I mean, it was very real, and that's
Speaker 4: what I think people connected to was the dispared disparity
Speaker 4: between Sean and Corey and they're making it now just
Speaker 4: this big cartoony I'm poor and it's like.
Speaker 2: You know, I actually think when we because we did
Speaker 2: make the jokes like the Uncle Joe, my uncle who
Speaker 2: does right and Verna, like we made jokes about but
Speaker 2: it was always off camera, right, and so I think
Speaker 2: like it could be cartooning over the top of it
Speaker 2: was in your imagination. When you try and bring it
Speaker 2: into reality, it becomes you have to Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: because I felt the same way about when we went
Speaker 2: when we did the the documentary episode, we went to
Speaker 2: you know, and they had to just keep making the
Speaker 2: jokes about you know, Shawn's family being criminals not wanting
Speaker 2: to be on camera, because again it's like, yeah, it
Speaker 2: just doesn't. I don't know. I think I think Sean's like,
Speaker 2: I think Sean's status is just better off camera or
Speaker 2: or you know, or played for reality.
Speaker 1: Well, when you played for jokes, you're right. When played
Speaker 1: for over the top jokes, it's better to not see it.
Speaker 1: When you see it, it feels it's not as good.
Speaker 1: So Chet then simps to Verna sugar pie, honey bunch.
Speaker 1: He refers to the bills as minor financial fracas, then
Speaker 1: tells the boys that's their new vocabulary word of the day, fracus.
Speaker 1: He's again so good, so funny, and it's exactly what
Speaker 1: you said writer, that part of who he is as
Speaker 1: a person is a performative guy exactly. So you're allowed
Speaker 1: to be look at me putting on a show because
Speaker 1: he's look at me put on I'm putting on a show.
Speaker 4: Guy.
Speaker 2: Oh it's really Verna. If if Verna's character, if you
Speaker 2: had written this scene with Verna being like no, no, seriously, chet,
Speaker 2: I need you to get a job. Like it would
Speaker 2: have raised the stakes and made made them like real,
Speaker 2: like I can't you know, I'm working at this movie theater.
Speaker 2: I can't do this. You have to like pull your
Speaker 2: weight and like just play it and like she's not
Speaker 2: a joke and he's trying to get around it and
Speaker 2: then ask you like I can't I gotta do that.
Speaker 2: It could have been great. It could have been just
Speaker 2: a very straightforward and still funny because he could still
Speaker 2: be trying to scheme and it's just not working.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and she's already proved in the last episode she's
Speaker 4: a phenomenal actor totally, so she can handle the weight,
Speaker 4: you know, make make it.
Speaker 2: But they hired her for the last episode scenes and
Speaker 2: then put her in a like wacky sitcom scene. Yes,
Speaker 2: and it's like that's not that's not the right tone.
Speaker 2: It's just great.
Speaker 1: I also think it would have made it actually more
Speaker 1: scary for Sean, especially like Mom's gonna leave again exactly
Speaker 1: she has been calm, if she but the fact that
Speaker 1: she's like ah, but if she had said, like if
Speaker 1: she was like you know what, I'm not surprised. If
Speaker 1: it's the I'm not angry, I'm disappointed exactly. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's a real like, oh gosh, Dad, this is every
Speaker 1: this was what everything was, This is why she left
Speaker 1: in the first place. This is she's gonna do it again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come home today and she won't be here.
Speaker 2: And so if Sean saying, Dad, you got to get
Speaker 2: a job with real urgency, and then of course that
Speaker 2: would only make him be in the janitor because then Sean.
Speaker 4: That that much work, and then the turn at the
Speaker 4: end from her starting to from that position to then
Speaker 4: literally putting her arms around Chad and kissing him would
Speaker 4: be huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Verna grabs Chet by the ear and reminds him that
Speaker 1: she's been tearing tickets at the movie theater every afternoon
Speaker 1: so they wouldn't have to hide bills in the microwave.
Speaker 1: She shakes him back and forth, comically, yelling I I
Speaker 1: want to be normal. Chet Chet responds, well, if we're
Speaker 1: not pleased with our little job but the theater, we
Speaker 1: should find one with a little more job fulfillment. Verna
Speaker 1: looks at him with fire in her eyes, and she says,
Speaker 1: we you said we work.
Speaker 2: I thought that's what they were gonna do.
Speaker 1: He too. I was like, that's where Sean gets it.
Speaker 3: I thought that's where it was going.
Speaker 1: She says, I work like a pig. This is quite
Speaker 1: a different personality than the last time we saw Verna.
Speaker 1: So Chet says that she storms away. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to ask for a raise because we got a microwave
Speaker 1: full of bills, honey. She checks her apron at him
Speaker 1: and he ducks right on time. Corey opens the door
Speaker 1: because it's got to be better out there. But that
Speaker 1: same woman we heard earlier is yelling familiar complaints. I
Speaker 1: want to be normal, spud. Corey slams the door. I'm stuck.
Speaker 1: And I love Corey in this situation where this is
Speaker 1: so different from his normal life and he is so
Speaker 1: anxious about it, Like, oh gosh, what do we do
Speaker 1: with Vernet.
Speaker 4: This episode, though, also continues to debunk a theory that
Speaker 4: we had, which is one of the theories that we
Speaker 4: had was one of the reasons they were getting rid
Speaker 4: of Tony is because the Tony Sean dynamic was taking
Speaker 4: away from Corey. I know, it's still he's still not there,
Speaker 4: and it's still not Corey, right, So it's it obviously,
Speaker 4: wasn't that. You know, We've had a couple episodes now
Speaker 4: where it's still Sean or Eric or somebody other than
Speaker 4: Corey that's driving the story forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, Blake is just so good. I think he's
Speaker 2: so such a fun character that I think they were
Speaker 2: just like the writers were just, oh, we gotta, we
Speaker 2: gotta do more for this guy, which meant can have
Speaker 2: Turner two. You know, it's like Sean can only you know,
Speaker 2: you can only have so many relationships. And I think
Speaker 2: once the once they realized like that they could keep
Speaker 2: writing for Blake and he would keep delivering, and they
Speaker 2: just went that direction, and poor Tony got.
Speaker 3: And how did Blake not end up with the Blake
Speaker 3: Clark show?
Speaker 4: Based just on this, especially in the nineties in sitcom
Speaker 4: with the blue Collar Comedy Tour being so big, with
Speaker 4: all the blue collar shows being so big.
Speaker 3: How was there not a Blake Clark show? That just
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense to me?
Speaker 1: I know. Well, with Verna in the nearby bedroom, Sean
Speaker 1: reminds his dad that she came back because she believed
Speaker 1: things would be different. There has to be change. Chet
Speaker 1: asks if Sean's referring to him getting a nine to
Speaker 1: five job, and Sean nods that would be different. Chet
Speaker 1: says maybe he needs to quit his ways of dreaming
Speaker 1: and scheme in to settle down and focus on reality.
Speaker 1: Of course, he'll have to move to Portugal because it's
Speaker 1: the pearl diving capital of the world. And Chet proudly says,
Speaker 1: you know I can hold my breath underwater for over
Speaker 1: four minutes. Corey jokes, well, that should help when she
Speaker 1: throws you off the bridge. Sean says Chet needs a
Speaker 1: normal job. Verna emphasized she wants to be normal. Chet
Speaker 1: looks at Corey. I suppose you want me to get
Speaker 1: a job too. Corey, sheepishly answers, whatever would calm everyone
Speaker 1: down is fine with me. Again. I love Coy, so Cory,
Speaker 1: I want to give him a big hug. He's like,
Speaker 1: please save me. And then we are in John Adams High, Corey, Shawan,
Speaker 1: and Tapanga are all together, just casually posing near a
Speaker 1: trash can like it's a teen beat centerfold, with Corey
Speaker 1: telling Sean his plan isn't gonna work. To Panga butts in,
Speaker 1: I think you are so mature, Corey responds, that's what
Speaker 1: it's like to be a guy. Honey.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Three young little Minkus lookalikes walk up and say that
Speaker 1: wasn't Homer Simpson. Sean says, sorry, kid, I could have
Speaker 1: sworn it was him. The three kids start to drink
Speaker 1: from their milk cartons and it all spills down their clothes.
Speaker 1: Sean boasts, they said it couldn't be done to Panga sarcastically,
Speaker 1: praise is very good anytime you can humiliate people, And
Speaker 1: I'm saying it with emphosis because I apparently could not
Speaker 1: say it as a teen. Did you guys notice that.
Speaker 3: No, but you couldn't say humiliate.
Speaker 1: I run right over it, or I say humiliate it's
Speaker 1: something I mean humiliate and I don't say it's like.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I apparently couldn't say it and
Speaker 1: this was the best take they got, or if for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they chose the take where this was the
Speaker 1: only time I said it. But it's so I listened
Speaker 1: to it like five times. What am I saying? But anyway,
Speaker 1: she says, anytime you can humiliate people who are weaker
Speaker 1: and defenseless, you should certainly go for it. Also, did
Speaker 1: you guys notice that I'm actively lowering my voice.
Speaker 3: No, oh, are you did you speaking of? Did you
Speaker 3: notice stuff?
Speaker 4: Did you notice what was in the background the sign
Speaker 4: episode down?
Speaker 2: Is that what it says?
Speaker 1: That just one in the classroom that says boom.
Speaker 2: Down right, there's a yellow sign this is like Halloween
Speaker 2: bash or whatever. And then there's a black sign that
Speaker 2: I was like, what does it say? And it looks
Speaker 2: like a ghosty.
Speaker 1: Sort of down dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then the John Adams High statue.
Speaker 1: Has a pig face, has the creepiest pig face.
Speaker 3: That's just the time. It's really weird. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: This is like, hey, surprise, it's the Halloween episode.
Speaker 4: You can tell by the skeleton on the wall that
Speaker 4: this is apparently the Halloween episode exactly.
Speaker 3: By the way, if.
Speaker 4: Those kids, which I bet you they were, those three
Speaker 4: little kids were eleven, they were the ages that you
Speaker 4: guys were, and they looked t they were so.
Speaker 1: Tiny, so cute and small. Corey points out how much
Speaker 1: of a mess that prank caused, and Shawn agrees, Now
Speaker 1: the school janitor will have something to do. Thus we
Speaker 1: have insured his job for another day. Right then the
Speaker 1: janitor walks out of his closet, and it's jet. Sean
Speaker 1: and Corey are both shocked. Chet proudly introduces himself chet
Speaker 1: Hunter Educational custodial services, normal job for normal people, and
Speaker 1: then sad music plays in the background and we realize
Speaker 1: the title of this episode is quite the spoiler. Janitor Dad.
Speaker 4: Also, I don't think he's coming out of his closet,
Speaker 4: it says bathroom.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought he was coming out of the janitor closet.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 1: It's you're right well, and then Phoene does head that way,
Speaker 1: but we're on different floors of the tower, so it's
Speaker 1: his office on that gotcha. Then we have a commercial
Speaker 1: break and we're back at the Wilderness out post. Eric
Speaker 1: and Allen are once against in amazement. Eric comments, remember, mom,
Speaker 1: he better, and that's very clear Michael.
Speaker 4: Michael Jacobs and you Jane Katie.
Speaker 3: Yeh such a Michael Jacobs's line.
Speaker 1: Yep, he better. The camera cuts to the mountain man Ezekiel,
Speaker 1: who is selling a plethora of rock climbing gear to
Speaker 1: the skinny yogurt man who amy shoot away in the episode,
Speaker 1: and the customer admits he's not sure about rock climbing.
Speaker 1: I prefer an elevator. Ezekiel assures him, this isn't about
Speaker 1: rock climbing, this is about your evolution as a human being.
Speaker 1: He asks what the man's name is, Edgar? Do you
Speaker 1: want to be an.
Speaker 2: Edgirl all your life?
Speaker 1: Edgar asks? Can you get me out of it? Alan
Speaker 1: tells Eric he's going to kill that little man. Eric responds,
Speaker 1: the guy came in because he wanted some booboo cream.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel sold him seven hundred dollars worth of equipment, and
Speaker 1: Alan explains, well, if all our customers are dead from
Speaker 1: falling off of mountains, at some point, business falls off too,
Speaker 1: and then we're back at John Adams High. Sean cannot
Speaker 1: get over this. Why does he have to be a
Speaker 1: janitor here?
Speaker 6: To?
Speaker 2: This is a really so?
Speaker 1: Yeah? This is the three line?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So you guys know like the Dan Harmon character wheel.
Speaker 2: Do you know about this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, okay, Well this is like the classic sitcom
Speaker 2: or comedy writing structure. And Dan Harmon lays it out
Speaker 2: really well, Dan Harmon to create a community and everything
Speaker 2: freaking morty and he it's like it's become like the standard.
Speaker 2: He basically identified what is the television the arc of
Speaker 2: every character in every television show has eight points, and
Speaker 2: he draws it as a circle. And it's basically like
Speaker 2: his adaptation of the Hero's Journey, you guys know, the
Speaker 2: Holy Hero, Like you leave home and so you have
Speaker 2: like the old school hero's journey, which describes how every
Speaker 2: story supposedly according to Joseph Campbell and a bunch of
Speaker 2: other theorists back anyway, so he adapted it so it's
Speaker 2: basically like a oh there it is. So you start with,
Speaker 2: you establish a protagonist, he needs something that isn't right,
Speaker 2: you go across the threshold. Anyway, it's eight points. But anyway,
Speaker 2: like the big thing is like they get what they
Speaker 2: want and then they pay a price for it, right,
Speaker 2: Like that's all always the moment in every Sick Car.
Speaker 2: And I just love that Eric and Alan get what
Speaker 2: they want, which is the great you know, the guy
Speaker 2: who's the Ezekiel, and then there has to be a
Speaker 2: problem with it, right, That's how story works. It's like
Speaker 2: and the problem is people are gonna die. Like it's
Speaker 2: like such a stretch. I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I don't understand. Like they're making so much money, right,
Speaker 2: and all their problems I've been solved. But we have
Speaker 2: to have a reason that this isn't gonna work, and
Speaker 2: it's not gonna work because nerds are dying on mountains
Speaker 2: like That's is one of the biggest stretches I've ever
Speaker 2: It's like this off camera problem that's really kind of
Speaker 2: not a problem.
Speaker 7: And also like, is it it would anyone argue it
Speaker 7: is your job as a store owner to determine that
Speaker 7: someone is incapable of something by just glancing at them.
Speaker 2: Right, the weirdest stretch, I just could not hear it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So there's an interesting story that goes along with
Speaker 4: this that's pretty awful. I was part of me wasn't
Speaker 4: even gonna tell it, but I was gonna. I figure
Speaker 4: out it's too perfect not to at this point because
Speaker 4: it just goes in exactly with what you're saying. So
Speaker 4: this week my brother Gary came out, my oldest brother
Speaker 4: came out to watch the taping, and he was there
Speaker 4: for the run through, and it's the first time he
Speaker 4: saw it. And at this scene and at the next scene,
Speaker 4: I looked over and his face was ashen, and it's
Speaker 4: because I had just realized that one of his best
Speaker 4: friends had just died in a climbing accident. It was
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it was weeks before or something
Speaker 4: like that. When I mean, somebody he grew up with
Speaker 4: had literally just died in a climbing accident, and we're
Speaker 4: sitting there joking about people dying in climbing accidents, and
Speaker 4: my brother too. That's when he said, that's when he
Speaker 4: was looking he was looking at like, I mean mortified
Speaker 4: watching this, And of course you don't think about something
Speaker 4: as random as that.
Speaker 1: We're like, you know what, I'm going to get out
Speaker 1: of this town I live in where my friend just died.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to watch a comedy in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Joking about and that's what we're joking.
Speaker 1: They would never do a storyline about a small man
Speaker 1: dying on a mountain.
Speaker 3: And that's what happened, literally had just happened. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was not terrible. Yeah, in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so that's one of the things I remember from
Speaker 4: doing this episode was watching that as you're kind of
Speaker 4: exactly what you're saying, like is this a bit ridiculous,
Speaker 4: Like you're saying that at the beginning of the of
Speaker 4: the show, like, come on, we're worried about people dying
Speaker 4: from it and then looking over and being like, oh god,
Speaker 4: it happened.
Speaker 3: Like it's rare obviously, but it was.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: It was a weird judge position, Yeah, bizarre.
Speaker 4: Didn't want to bring the room down, but it was
Speaker 4: too too much of a correlation to see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just goes to show like no matter what
Speaker 2: the storyline is or.
Speaker 3: With somebody, Yeah, it'll resonate with somebody.
Speaker 6: Nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally so to Panga assures Sean, everyone needs a job.
Speaker 1: People understand that. They walk into Turner's classroom and a
Speaker 1: kid who has spiky hair and looks like the bully
Speaker 1: sid from Toy Story tells Sean does he does?
Speaker 2: It was probably cast because of that, because he looked.
Speaker 4: Like and with such a bully name too.
Speaker 2: Random on his desk crandall.
Speaker 4: You've never seen me before, but I'm always here, ready
Speaker 4: to make fun of people, a.
Speaker 2: Sticking out of his.
Speaker 1: Mouth and a Southern accent. Yeah, so, he tells Sean,
Speaker 1: I hear our dads have a lot in common. My
Speaker 1: father is a doctor and your father's Oh wait, he
Speaker 1: cleans toilets my mistake. The audience oohs loudly. Even the
Speaker 1: inmates are disgusted, Sean responds, very funny. If you keep
Speaker 1: it up, I'm gonna punch your head off. The boy
Speaker 1: snaps back. Then your father's gonna pick it up.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I was doing that too with.
Speaker 1: The audience exactly. Turner, who is vested up looking like
Speaker 1: color me bad, steps in asking if everything's okay, because
Speaker 1: if it is, we're just gonna take a little break
Speaker 1: for your education, and then Turner begins to teach about H. G.
Speaker 1: Wells's bleak picture of class differences in the future from
Speaker 1: his book The Time Machine Above the surf. You have the.
Speaker 2: Literature they're bringing back. They're bringing it back. Having Tony
Speaker 2: on screen, especially like next to me, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I know, we're done with that whole era.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's over. It's over. That's it.
Speaker 2: There's no real acknowledgment of it now.
Speaker 3: I was just teaching like it would be so great.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, we just we only have twenty
Speaker 2: two minutes, but like Turner should be involved in the
Speaker 2: discussion and part of the feeny thing, like I miss it,
Speaker 2: I miss it.
Speaker 1: It is so it is the show, So he says,
Speaker 1: the alloy living the good life below the surface, living
Speaker 1: like animals. You got the Morlocks doing all the dirty work.
Speaker 1: Chet walks into the classroom just at this moment, wheeling
Speaker 1: a TV and for the class to use, which, if
Speaker 1: you lived in the nineties, was the single greatest moment
Speaker 1: you could experience watching today.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's teacher doesn't know what to teach. They're
Speaker 2: just gonna throw on freaky Fridays, we are going to
Speaker 2: watch a movie about our ever growing bodies.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the bully scoff speaking of your dad, and Sean
Speaker 1: snaps snaps back, speak of head off, which is not
Speaker 1: a great comeback.
Speaker 2: The worst I've ever heard was real.
Speaker 1: Jerk Store, George costanzavibes.
Speaker 2: You know it should have been more of a joke,
Speaker 2: like I should have played it up for speaking of
Speaker 2: get off. You know, there's a way to play it,
Speaker 2: but we're played it for drama.
Speaker 4: But it's the absolutely is jerk store.
Speaker 2: I don't know the jerk store of reference.
Speaker 4: George Constanz's comeback is he's got to come back at
Speaker 4: this store.
Speaker 1: And then he gets in the car and he leaves
Speaker 1: and on his way home, you real, he comes up
Speaker 1: with an insult and so he tries.
Speaker 4: Eating a bunch of shrimp, and the guy says, hey, George,
Speaker 4: the ocean called, they want their shrimp. The running out
Speaker 4: of shrimp. And as he's driving home, he's like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's what I should have said. And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 4: Well the jerk store called and they're running out of
Speaker 4: you and there's crickets.
Speaker 1: He was already on his way home and he drinks
Speaker 1: on he's got.
Speaker 4: It, and he thinks it's the perfect line, jerk store.
Speaker 4: I'm going with jerk stores. That's such a jerk store line.
Speaker 2: No one's talking about. You are the one. What you know, Sean?
Speaker 1: Stop Sean, this is You're embarrassing?
Speaker 3: Are I am rooting for Doug crandall? At this point.
Speaker 2: Should have just cut to him. Doug Crand will be like,
Speaker 2: what we go back to that? You want to try
Speaker 2: that again? It again? From the top.
Speaker 1: Turner explains, since there are no pictures in the book,
Speaker 1: he thought they'd take a look at the film version
Speaker 1: of the time Machine for once.
Speaker 2: The exactly why would Turner ever be like, let's watch
Speaker 2: a movie version of the book of the book. Where
Speaker 2: to get that TV in there?
Speaker 1: Jet hands the VHS to Turner, which resembles a Blockbuster
Speaker 1: box and says hi to his son on the way out.
Speaker 1: The bully mocks him, was the nice man your daddy?
Speaker 1: Corey tells Crandall to shut up, and Depega tells them
Speaker 1: to both ignore him. And how does Turner not hear
Speaker 1: all of this and step in?
Speaker 4: He's too busy rewinding the tape because the last guy
Speaker 4: didn't do it exactly.
Speaker 1: He was not kind.
Speaker 3: No, rewind rewind.
Speaker 1: Crandall purposefully knocks some things onto the floor for Chet
Speaker 1: to clean up. What are those rocks? Sunflower seeds?
Speaker 2: You've gotten something?
Speaker 3: The shells of some seeds like you do on your desk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so some it's hard.
Speaker 2: To tell without I know my definition.
Speaker 1: It's just like and you could hear them all fall,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like rocks fall.
Speaker 3: And I just carry gravel everywhere, go dog, Crandall anything.
Speaker 2: Crandall? What are you doing.
Speaker 3: Sitting here with my gravel? What's what's your problem?
Speaker 1: The boy stands up and calls for Sean's pappy. Sean
Speaker 1: stands up to Doug, why don't you do me a
Speaker 1: favor first? Doug asks what, and Shawn's lunges at him, saying,
Speaker 1: you can bleed and you can bleed is actually a
Speaker 1: great catchphrase for Sean.
Speaker 2: I'm like shouting while jumping like I'm ready to fight.
Speaker 2: What sorry, Sean, what did you say speaking? I jump
Speaker 2: like three feet to reach the guy because he's gig
Speaker 2: and sick like.
Speaker 4: This is also the school where no one ever throws
Speaker 4: a punch. You just go straight for the headlock and
Speaker 4: then wrestle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's if we're doing a lot of like tussle
Speaker 2: motion to make it look like we're fighting when nothing's happening.
Speaker 2: It was, this is not as good as the Cory
Speaker 2: No Corey Sean fight. Ben and I were much more
Speaker 2: comfortable with our studs. Me and this actor playing Doug
Speaker 2: crandall not as comfortable.
Speaker 3: And uh Sean Sean bib Yeah was that his name?
Speaker 3: Bib bab bab bab baby by that's it, Sean John bab.
Speaker 1: The two boys pretend fight until Corey and Turner break
Speaker 1: them apart. Corey holds Sean back as Turner looks disappointed,
Speaker 1: and then that's when I noticed for the first time
Speaker 1: the poster in the background that says Booggy.
Speaker 3: Down by the way, Happy Halloween everyone. That's how the
Speaker 3: show how the episode should have ended. Yes, it's just
Speaker 3: wait what I'm proud of? My dad is the janitor.
Speaker 1: And so then we are in Phoenie's office. Phoenie declares,
Speaker 1: it's mister Hunter in my office for getting into a fight.
Speaker 1: Let me show you my big surprised face, but then
Speaker 1: he stares down Sean without a single expression. Sean tells
Speaker 1: Phoenie to punish him so they can get on with
Speaker 1: their lives, and Phoene explains this is my life, asking
Speaker 1: what you've done and why you've done it. Sean argues back,
Speaker 1: it's nothing I did. It's about you hiring my father
Speaker 1: to be the janitor. How could you do that to me?
Speaker 1: Phoene is surprised. I never actually considered that it would
Speaker 1: be awkward having your father work here. Phoene explains if
Speaker 1: Chet working at the school is disruptive, he'll have to
Speaker 1: reconsider his employment. Sewan is surprised, you're on my side.
Speaker 1: Phoenie admits, frightening, isn't it. However, rather than take sides,
Speaker 1: I think the best course would be to throw it
Speaker 1: to you. Since he is his student, Sean can decide
Speaker 1: whether or not he wants his father to work there,
Speaker 1: and then we get dramatic music as Sean realizes it's
Speaker 1: up to him and he leaves the office, allowing Bill
Speaker 1: to do some serious pen fiddling.
Speaker 2: Excellent Phoene sing Pie Peeni. I mean, like, this is
Speaker 2: just the ultimate Phoene scene, right, Yeah, You're You're the
Speaker 2: authority figure who's supposed to come down hard and instead
Speaker 2: you taekwondo it, You flip it and suddenly it's like whoa,
Speaker 2: Sean's energy is thrust back at him and he has
Speaker 2: to like think for himself. Come on, it's great, this
Speaker 2: is like, yeah, this arc, the Phoene Sean side of
Speaker 2: this episode is excellent. Cla classic Phoenie. Great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, I love it and a great problem
Speaker 3: to have.
Speaker 4: That's one of the things that I had wrong with
Speaker 4: this episode is it could have been so good because
Speaker 4: it's a great problem. Your dad needs a job he
Speaker 4: works at the same school. Is that embarrassing? Oh man,
Speaker 4: the things you could have done with it are incredible. Also,
Speaker 4: why wasn't Crandall in trouble or was he was? He
Speaker 4: maybe yelled.
Speaker 1: At and maybe he was yelled at sept.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm thinking. That's what I went to.
Speaker 2: YEAHI was just like, what are you eating in class?
Speaker 4: The pocket of gravel or and or Lucci all this
Speaker 4: time miss.
Speaker 2: Gravel. Again, we have to.
Speaker 1: Talk about a dentist. I could recommend to you.
Speaker 4: Your father's a doctor, mister Crandall, you should talk to him.
Speaker 1: And then we are in the school hallway. It is
Speaker 1: now that I've noticed it, it is absolutely filled with
Speaker 1: Halloween posters.
Speaker 2: It was such a note, you know, they were like,
Speaker 2: what do we do it? We got I want Halloween everywhere, everywhere,
Speaker 2: everywhere with cameras.
Speaker 3: It's now the it's the spooky blood drive.
Speaker 2: Let's go change the poster. There is like this prank thing,
Speaker 2: like you know, Sean does the prank in the beginning
Speaker 2: with the milk car, and it's like there could have
Speaker 2: been something like hallow, it's a treat. It's the season
Speaker 2: of pranks.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah?
Speaker 4: And again how does Crandall not then take candy wrappers
Speaker 4: and throw them on the ground.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, that's it's holloway size.
Speaker 3: You need gravel.
Speaker 4: Not at your house, Daniel full That's right, it's place
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 1: Corey is sitting down paper towels as he and Sean
Speaker 1: get ready for lunch. Corey explains he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: make a mess because somebody's got to clean it up,
Speaker 1: and I don't want anybody to clean it up. And
Speaker 1: then Doug and his friend who was not paid to speak,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't ever say anything, but.
Speaker 3: He's got leather jacket, so he's bad. You know he's bad.
Speaker 3: Leave the jacket gang back.
Speaker 1: Doug loudly says, so. The toilet overflows, and Phoene asks
Speaker 1: the new janitor if he can handle it. Guy says, hey,
Speaker 1: when I was in the CIA, I opped up after
Speaker 1: the sandinistas. I can mop up this. Then, in the
Speaker 1: most d bag TGIF has ever seen up to this point,
Speaker 1: he says, janitors are so colorful, and he walks on,
Speaker 1: and then the crowd oohs very loudly, but doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like that was very sick burn, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Not as sick as speaking of head off. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: where do you go from after that? You've hit the
Speaker 4: pinnacle complete. As long as you weren't humiliated, you're fine.
Speaker 3: If you aren't humiliated, you're humiliated. Humiliate ooge. Supposedly you
Speaker 3: were humiliate million million.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to say wrong. Just then Poenie walks
Speaker 1: by and Sean rushes to him he's thought it over.
Speaker 1: Phoene replies, Wow, that took all of five minutes. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you gave it the time it deserved. Sean reveals,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be best for everybody if you just
Speaker 1: let my dad go. Feenie agrees it is important to
Speaker 1: look out for everybody. Sean asks when he's going to
Speaker 1: be fired, and Phoene says it may take a few
Speaker 1: days to find a replacement, so he'll tell Chet about
Speaker 1: his decision after that, and right on cute Chet walks
Speaker 1: up to Corey's array of paper towels. What pig eight here?
Speaker 1: And obviously guilty feeling, Sean tries to convince Corey that
Speaker 1: he's actually doing his dad a favor, but we can
Speaker 1: feel he doesn't actually believe it. And then we're back
Speaker 1: in the wilderness outpost, which also is completely ducked out
Speaker 1: in decorative Halloween ghosts. Yep, and Eric excitedly announces that
Speaker 1: Ezekiel sold all the rock climbing shoes, but Alan says
Speaker 1: he sold them to customers who had no business buying them.
Speaker 1: Eric asks, so, if we get past that nagging moral issue,
Speaker 1: that all those people are gonna die. We could be
Speaker 1: very successful.
Speaker 3: Right then the funny line.
Speaker 1: It is very funny. Alan says he'd had dreams of
Speaker 1: skinny little men and brand new rock climbing shoes, falling
Speaker 1: off a mountain screaming at him, you sold me these
Speaker 1: you merchants of Day.
Speaker 3: And Rusty and I could not get through this because.
Speaker 1: Even with your brother standing nearby. Crime No.
Speaker 4: Luckily, by this point he would. Gary wasn't there for
Speaker 4: the actual KP. He just came for the He was
Speaker 4: there for the run through.
Speaker 1: He was probably planning to be there for the running
Speaker 1: but then when he saw who I'm out of here?
Speaker 4: We we could not, I mean, because Rusty was so
Speaker 4: funny and we just we laughed for a day straight.
Speaker 4: It was so funny, funny, I love you, I.
Speaker 1: Love thinking about you, and Rusty not being able to
Speaker 1: keep it together.
Speaker 3: Oh we couldn't. We could not get through this scene.
Speaker 3: We just had the giggles the whole time. It was
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 1: So Eric asks merchants of Day and Aaron clarifies death.
Speaker 1: Eric tries to make him feel better, Well, if we
Speaker 1: weren't making stacks and stacks of money dreams like that,
Speaker 1: would really bug us, another very funny line, and then
Speaker 1: Ezekiel walks in. He has terrible news from the hill country.
Speaker 1: Alan guesses they found the bodies, and Ezekiel continues, my
Speaker 1: mama's took sick. She wants him to come home so
Speaker 1: he can tend to her. Eric is furious, you can't
Speaker 1: just leave. We don't know how to sell stuff. Ezekiel
Speaker 1: calms him, don't worry, I'd never leave you. Kind folks
Speaker 1: in alrics, you blew.
Speaker 2: Past one of the best moments ever when Will just
Speaker 2: takes a whole full like beat, walks up and says,
Speaker 2: powerful Sick is one of the greatest line reads ever.
Speaker 2: Powerful sick? Are you kidding me? Like that is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest, Like if you read that on the page,
Speaker 2: the line is Mama took sick, and then Eric says
Speaker 2: powerful sick. But Will makes a meal out of it
Speaker 2: and just kills it. And then I wanted to keep going.
Speaker 2: Then you adjusted. I was like, oh, if we'll just
Speaker 2: keeps playing off the Ezekiel like speak and like Eric,
Speaker 2: it becomes like Mountain Man with him. Oh, I would
Speaker 2: watch a whole episode of that Powerful Sick. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that was funny, my god, like my favorite that these
Speaker 2: are the two best lines of the whole episode, because
Speaker 2: MERCHANTI dad, powerful.
Speaker 1: Powerful, sick o man, oh god. Ezekiel says he got
Speaker 1: his younger brother's youngster, Lonnie to come down here and
Speaker 1: take my place. Furious, Eric gets all up in Ezekiel's face.
Speaker 1: Now you looky here. We hired you, okay, not Lonnie.
Speaker 1: We don't know Lonnie. We don't want Lonnie. Okay? Why
Speaker 1: would you tell Lonnie to go back where Lonnie came from?
Speaker 1: And then a girl in tiny shorts and a crop
Speaker 1: top walks in. She's Lonnie. Eric screams in excitement, Dad,
Speaker 1: look who's here. It's Lonnie. Oh man, that really made
Speaker 1: me laugh too. Your turn from Lonnie get Lonnie out
Speaker 1: of here to screaming Lonnie in excitement was very funny.
Speaker 1: And then we're back in the Hunter's trailer. Verna's setting
Speaker 1: out dinner as Sean walks in and tells her there's
Speaker 1: this kid at school who spilled his milk all over
Speaker 1: the floor, forcing somebody to come and clean it up.
Speaker 1: Verna asks, he did this in front of your friends.
Speaker 1: Sean nods, in front of everybody. Verna asks if you
Speaker 1: did a good job leaving the floor lemony fresh. Sean
Speaker 1: emphasizes Dad's a school janitor. It's humiliating, Verna sorry he
Speaker 1: feels that way because she is so proud of Chet
Speaker 1: she could bust. She explains that for twenty years we
Speaker 1: have lived on your father's stories, and those used to
Speaker 1: make me angry because none of them were real. But
Speaker 1: your story about your father being a janitor, that's real,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that makes me proud and like, good scene, great, great,
Speaker 1: great line, great point, like gets me in my feels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tried, but I was so distracted by how
Speaker 4: she was not the mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1: Why the right way to make a wi Well?
Speaker 4: First of all, the milk was obviously not warmed in
Speaker 4: any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3: She's making him in a.
Speaker 4: Glass bowl on the table, not even over the heat
Speaker 4: in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Back would have to be a camera for that.
Speaker 4: Will Well have priorities mashed potatoes first, TV show second. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's the way it works, I'm sure, she said wonderful
Speaker 4: things until she added a little bit of margarine.
Speaker 1: They should have the potato party. Aposta party would have
Speaker 1: solved everyone's problems.
Speaker 4: Here I'm just saying, I'm sure the scene was very good.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell because I was too worried about the cold,
Speaker 4: lumpy margarine to mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1: Well, we know where our priorities are. Chet busts through
Speaker 1: the door with a huge smile on his face. He looks,
Speaker 1: I realized in this moment, he looks like John Goodman like,
Speaker 1: and this is like coming in. He reminds me of
Speaker 1: John Goodman coming in Roseanne.
Speaker 3: And that's what I'm saying. They did like the Roseanne
Speaker 3: show this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he greets the two as his little nuclear family unit.
Speaker 1: There's my wife making supper, there's my son home from school.
Speaker 1: The only thing missing to complete the scene of domestic
Speaker 1: regularity is dad's first paycheck. And then Chet pulls out
Speaker 1: his first paycheck. And I first thought, how'd he get
Speaker 1: that so fast? It's one been one day. Then I
Speaker 1: thought Phoene's plan. It's all part of Phoene's plan. He
Speaker 1: knows well. On the one hand, he could have sent
Speaker 1: him home with his check because it's his last check, right,
Speaker 1: He's going to fire him tomorrow. He wants Sean to
Speaker 1: think he's gonna fire him tomorrow. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's as realistic as the idea that he knows he's
Speaker 1: gonna come home thrilled to have a paycheck. So I
Speaker 1: think I think it's all part of making Phoenie the wonderful,
Speaker 1: all knowing manipulator behind the scenes of all that.
Speaker 3: He's Yoda.
Speaker 1: Yes he really is, he says, well, look he here,
Speaker 1: and I earned it, I really did. Verna grabs him
Speaker 1: for a passionate kiss and Chet is shocked. What the
Speaker 1: heck was that? She tells him there's plenty more where
Speaker 1: that came from. That you probably won't recognize either, mister paycheck.
Speaker 1: You know what I thought here, Verna's.
Speaker 2: DTLM takes us a bitcheck.
Speaker 3: Well, she's certainly not DTM. She's not down to mash
Speaker 3: so many problems.
Speaker 1: Chet says, not in front of the boy. I ain't
Speaker 1: really had a chance to explain to young Shawnie the
Speaker 1: dirtiness of life. Verna reiterates how proud she is, and
Speaker 1: he thanks her. I think I'm doing a good job too,
Speaker 1: because mister Feeney wants to see me in his office
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning, he jokes. He jokes, kind
Speaker 1: of like father like son. Huh, Sean. Sean is visibly sad,
Speaker 1: and Chet asks what's wrong? And Sean asks, are you
Speaker 1: okay with this job? It didn't bother you to be
Speaker 1: cleaning up after other people, and Chet admits it's not
Speaker 1: exactly pearl diving in Portugal, but he has this amazing
Speaker 1: benefits package, and Sean scoffs. What benefits are there to
Speaker 1: being a janitor? Chat tells him, well, for one thing,
Speaker 1: after being away from my son for a year, what
Speaker 1: better benefit than a job that lets me be near him.
Speaker 1: Verna gives Shan a big smile and Sean smiles back.
Speaker 1: But the idea that he's forced Feeney to fire Chet
Speaker 1: in the morning is weighing heavy.
Speaker 3: Very nice, by the way, you said that said that
Speaker 3: well for force.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2: Fire Fred fo fire friends.
Speaker 3: That's the problem that this.
Speaker 4: Scene just indicates how the entire episode could have been
Speaker 4: better if they'd just rewritten that first scene, because it
Speaker 4: really is just the first scene that's the problem. The
Speaker 4: rest of it is great. Yeah, so yeah, it did
Speaker 4: it did. So.
Speaker 1: Then we're back in John Adams High. Sean's waiting by
Speaker 1: his locker as mister foene walks by. He runs up
Speaker 1: to Feenie, who shocked to see Sean at school early.
Speaker 1: My life's work is done. Goodbye everyone, so good. Sean
Speaker 1: says he's changed his mind about his dad working at school,
Speaker 1: and Phoene says he's already started searching for a replacement.
Speaker 1: Sean begs him, you have to cancel it, okay, because
Speaker 1: you can't just do that to a guy who's finally
Speaker 1: found a steady job. And my mom, who's been waiting
Speaker 1: all this time for him to be responsible, came to
Speaker 1: the chair and she put her arm around him. Phoenie understands,
Speaker 1: thanks for a second and says, Oki doki. Sean's confused,
Speaker 1: I'm me too, just like that, and Phoene explains, I'm
Speaker 1: the principle I willed great and mysterious powers. Besides that,
Speaker 1: I was never going to fire your father in the
Speaker 1: first place, because this never about your father. This was
Speaker 1: always about you. Phoenie pats him on the shoulder and
Speaker 1: walks away.
Speaker 2: And he says, because you're the student, right, what the line.
Speaker 1: Is always about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh man, awesome. Yeah. And this is where we get
Speaker 2: into like the sort of the question of you know,
Speaker 2: the reality of boy meets world being from like the
Speaker 2: kid's point of view. You know, where your principle is God,
Speaker 2: like your principal is the sort of on your teacher.
Speaker 2: You know, originally your teacher knows best. You know, like
Speaker 2: teacher knows best. Could kind of be like a subatic
Speaker 2: message of boy meets World. Yeah, it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: So great. So Cory and Topanga, who have been creepingly like,
Speaker 1: did you notice us creepily standing in the back?
Speaker 4: No, because I couldn't see anything the tiny little skirt
Speaker 4: you're wearing.
Speaker 1: We continue to not care about what she looks like.
Speaker 4: Sue, and Sue's like, oh my god, how did her
Speaker 4: parents let her out of the house like that?
Speaker 3: Get back upstairs and put on a longer dress.
Speaker 1: I know. I think it's funny that after the haircutting episode,
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, you're right, and then I've continued
Speaker 1: to just wear super cute little outfits, do my hair
Speaker 1: and makeup every day. It's I mean, it's cute. We're
Speaker 1: in peak Daniell, peak Danielle time. Uh So they Corey
Speaker 1: and Tanga walk up and Corey asks what was so
Speaker 1: important that we had to be here five minutes early.
Speaker 1: Sean looks over at Doug and his thug buddy. They've
Speaker 1: also been hanging out nearby for really no reason. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to watch you drink this milk. He pulls
Speaker 1: a carton out of his backpack and hands it to Corey,
Speaker 1: who says, I guess I could always use a little
Speaker 1: milk to Panga asks.
Speaker 2: No, then Sean just throw some milk on the ground, right.
Speaker 1: Right, But he wanted they need they want to do
Speaker 1: a gravel cory into it, so Corey. Corey knows that
Speaker 1: this is a bit because Corey looks over his shoulder
Speaker 1: at Doug like, yeah, I'll help you do this. So
Speaker 1: they just wanted to tie it together. That the core
Speaker 1: always he's gotten, He's got nothing, nothing.
Speaker 3: This was not a Corey episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is interesting because he could have easily
Speaker 2: been like involved on the Phoene side, right, like Corey
Speaker 2: could have been in other episodes. He's played that role
Speaker 2: where he's like, I'm worried about Sean to like mister
Speaker 2: Feenie or mister Turner and sort of helping him. But
Speaker 2: in this episode he's just there for laughs and yep,
Speaker 2: not not affecting change at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Tapanga asks, is this another one of those delightful
Speaker 1: little stunts. Sean thinks to Panga may actually like this one,
Speaker 1: and then he knocks the cart and out of Corey's hand.
Speaker 1: Milk spills all over the floor. Corey shocked, and Shohan apologizes,
Speaker 1: so he is kind of in on it. But then
Speaker 1: he asks, very shocked about what happened. Sean apologizes, and
Speaker 1: then Doug walks up, looks like we get to start
Speaker 1: another day with your dad, and Sean proudly responds, looks
Speaker 1: like we do. Chat walks out of the janitorial closet
Speaker 1: or the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Bathroom, says bathrooms, bathroom. Also he seems to just sense
Speaker 3: when something spilled on the.
Speaker 1: Floors, always in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven into the tower. Alert, Alert, we have cleaning crew.
Speaker 4: Cleaning crew, immediately, we have milk down on for this
Speaker 4: twenty eight floor tower.
Speaker 1: He comes out and says, looks like I'm needed here.
Speaker 1: Sean stops him, grabs the mop from his hand and says, here, DoD,
Speaker 1: let me take care of that. He mops proudly in
Speaker 1: front of Doug's face. Chet says he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: do that, but Sean responds, I know I don't, and
Speaker 1: I know you don't either. Chet smiles as the crowd
Speaker 1: crowd claps loudly and Sean continues mopping in front of
Speaker 1: the two bullies who.
Speaker 4: Hate him, but Doug also gives him kind of like
Speaker 4: a yeah, respect man, man, he does respect for something.
Speaker 2: It's that moment karate kid. Yes, cat in the face.
Speaker 3: Illegally, by the way, but that's a whole nother story. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: It was a strange kind of like, yeah, I respect
Speaker 4: that you're now also helping to the milk you caused
Speaker 4: problems with I'm Doug, you'll never see.
Speaker 2: Me again, Doug crandall empty Doug crandall.
Speaker 4: Out Jerk store with jerk store.
Speaker 1: And then we're in the Wilderness Outpost?
Speaker 2: Is really the wilderness Outpost?
Speaker 4: Is that what it?
Speaker 1: That's what it's called the store it's outside of it
Speaker 1: says Wilderness Outpost, but I never.
Speaker 2: Scribble said wilderness store. Yeah, it's a backyard.
Speaker 1: It's a backyard and a wilderness store. So a lot
Speaker 1: of staring in the Wilderness Store in this episode, as
Speaker 1: Eric is now staring at a Lonnie who is explaining
Speaker 1: to Willie Garson, who's back in the store, that bow
Speaker 1: hunting takes a special kind of man, a man who
Speaker 1: can stand his ground when a grizzly bears charging right
Speaker 1: at him.
Speaker 2: Picks up not a bow but a cross though, which
Speaker 2: doesnt with the crossbow. No, it's not. It's the weirdest, like,
Speaker 2: why not.
Speaker 1: Know any of it? It could have been a bow,
Speaker 1: it could have been.
Speaker 2: That is a crossbow cross I mean maybe people hunt
Speaker 2: with crossboys. I don't know, but it's definitely not the
Speaker 2: same as bohun Like you're you and your bow and
Speaker 2: an arrow and you're going out. Yeah, it's highly skilled
Speaker 2: and yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: Well, Mervin responds, I work for Merrill Lynch. She hands
Speaker 1: him the bow. You'll be fine. Sorry, she hands him
Speaker 1: Mervin Ross. But yes, his name is Mervin.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alan tells Ezekiel behind the counter. I must say,
Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about your niece working here. She
Speaker 1: seems like a sweet, nice girl, but she is on
Speaker 1: the attractive side and could be a distraction to a
Speaker 1: lot of young men, so she should not be allowed
Speaker 1: to exist.
Speaker 3: No, she should have jobs.
Speaker 2: No, No, you can't have a job where you're going
Speaker 2: to get you're attracted men.
Speaker 1: You might distract on you. Get out of here, fired
Speaker 1: fired damn women, and then he says, like, oh, say
Speaker 1: my son who has to work with her every day.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel sures there's nothing to worry about. Lonetta was raised
Speaker 1: with eleven brothers, but the way he says it is
Speaker 1: like he's an eleven brother.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, he's not. Yeah, he's not. He doesn't know
Speaker 3: the handshake. Come on, ryder.
Speaker 1: Yes, they brought her up as girly as they could,
Speaker 1: but danged if she didn't turn out all boy. Eric
Speaker 1: approaches Lonnie, saying it'd probably be in their best interest
Speaker 1: to get to know each other since they'll be working together.
Speaker 1: She kindly asks, you mean that, Eric? He emphasizes, I've
Speaker 1: never been more serious about anything in my entire life.
Speaker 1: She punches him and tells him how friendly ouch That
Speaker 1: punch stung? She asks, you like to go hunting? You
Speaker 1: like to go fishing? We can do some boxing. She
Speaker 1: puts up her dukes and starts punching Eric again. He's
Speaker 1: in pain, asking her to stop. As she pummels him.
Speaker 1: She puts him in a choke hold and tells him
Speaker 1: to not hold back. Not the face, Eric yells. Ezekiel
Speaker 1: tells Alan, yeah, her brothers are real glad she found work.
Speaker 1: Eric eventually falls over in defeat and Lonnie celebrates like
Speaker 1: Rocky after a knockout.
Speaker 3: She beat the hell of me.
Speaker 2: Really, I was wondering, actually have week.
Speaker 4: No pads, to the point where the third day I
Speaker 4: was covered in bruises and I had to pull her
Speaker 4: aside and said, can you can you please pull your
Speaker 4: punches a little bit?
Speaker 2: If memories?
Speaker 4: First of all, she couldn't have been sweeter. She and
Speaker 4: I got along really really well, good actress. She'd done
Speaker 4: a bunch of episodes since after, and we loved working together.
Speaker 4: But I had to go to her bruises in hand
Speaker 4: and say, can you please pull your punches? Because at
Speaker 4: first she had a ring on and she was dating
Speaker 4: a guy at the time who was like a martial
Speaker 4: arts master who apparently she had trained with, and as
Speaker 4: my wife says, I bruise like a peach. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: I mean she be. I would go home and take
Speaker 4: my shirt off, and I was covered in bruises from
Speaker 4: this woman, and so it was like, can you please,
Speaker 4: could you please stop actually beating me up? During the
Speaker 4: run through, She's like, I'm so sorry, of course, but
Speaker 4: it was man that that whole week hurts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I just want you guys to know we
Speaker 1: looked up Mickey Jones's birthday and it was June tenth.
Speaker 1: So close, so close.
Speaker 3: He's got an eleventh brother vibe though.
Speaker 1: Yeah he does. You're right, Yeah, you're right. Well, thank
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