Speaker 1: Jensen has pre show chatter for us today, which always
Speaker 1: makes me nervous. I mean, what what is what is this?
Speaker 2: Bro Rider Strong did a commercial back when he was there.
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Speaker 4: We're just talking about I don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 3: Danielle was tasked with recording a sixty second ad for
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Speaker 1: I would also like to state that, for the record,
Speaker 1: I recorded this in the middle of the mirror on
Speaker 1: acid me, which was nine PI, was late. I was tired,
Speaker 1: and Jensen was like, oh, I've got to have you
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Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait.
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Speaker 8: It takes me right back to be on set with
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Speaker 7: Front of the audience as much as it would when
Speaker 7: we were pre taping, but you would just get into
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Speaker 1: So welcome to today's episode recap. It's season six episode twelve,
Speaker 1: Cutting the Cord. It originally aired January eighth, nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Wow, we're in the ninety nine yikes y two k already.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest years. Ninety nine, boy it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great year.
Speaker 1: What a great yep. The synopsis Sean and Angela asked
Speaker 1: Corey in Tapanga to refrain from interfering in their breakup
Speaker 1: while Alan has a midlife crisis with a new baby
Speaker 1: on the way. It was directed by Kevin Tracy. This
Speaker 1: is his first of three Boy Meets World episodes he directed.
Speaker 1: He was our associate director dating back to season five,
Speaker 1: and served that position on many other shows like Family Matters,
Speaker 1: The Amanda Show and all that. Sadly, Kevin passed away
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three at just forty seven years old.
Speaker 2: He was a great guy. Yes, he was a really
Speaker 2: a great guy.
Speaker 1: Yeh, wonderful energy about him.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You would always do this thing. This is how I
Speaker 2: always remember Kevin.
Speaker 4: He would I'd walk by him and he'd put his
Speaker 4: face somewhere strange, like into the wall or into the
Speaker 4: back of a chair or into the couch and just
Speaker 4: start going, well, will you you in here? Will you
Speaker 4: in this couch? And I'd be like, no, Kevin, I'm
Speaker 4: over here, and you go, oh oh sorry. So every
Speaker 4: time I did, he just pop his head somewhere really bizarre. Well,
Speaker 4: Willy in here, I'll always gone never forget that.
Speaker 1: Man, that's really cute. I'm going to start doing that
Speaker 1: for my kids. They would love that.
Speaker 2: He was a very good guys.
Speaker 1: It was written by Alison M. Gibson. This is her
Speaker 1: first of four episodes. She came from Home Improvement Sister
Speaker 1: Sister and the short lived Kirk, but would later go
Speaker 1: on to create the beloved sitcom Riba and coep the
Speaker 1: show awkward.
Speaker 4: Please tell me Kirk was actually about Captain Kirk, because
Speaker 4: that would have been.
Speaker 2: The best show ever.
Speaker 1: Nope, it was Kirk Cameron show that I guess.
Speaker 2: Not the same show. Not the same show.
Speaker 1: So before we jump into our guest stars, do you
Speaker 1: have any overall thoughts?
Speaker 4: I'll go first if you are Yeah, I did not
Speaker 4: remember anything about this episode. I thought this was the
Speaker 4: Tommy episode. I thought we were going right into Tommy.
Speaker 2: I really liked this episode, Yeah, I did. I thought
Speaker 2: this was well balanced. I love seeing Rusty going through stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, some of it didn't really make a whole
Speaker 4: lot of sense, but I'm kind of to the point
Speaker 4: of not really caring anymore. I mean, Sean, it's like
Speaker 4: he broke up with her, So none of that makes
Speaker 4: any sense. I think Bill had finals this week.
Speaker 8: Oh right, yeah, I didn't even finals this week.
Speaker 2: He's trying to get his masters.
Speaker 4: But I was twenty two minutes of fun. I liked
Speaker 4: me the first time in a while. I was like, oh, great,
Speaker 4: this is a fun episode. I thought there was some
Speaker 4: hard jokes and I.
Speaker 2: Thought it was good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, me too. I think for me it's just
Speaker 8: the Sean mobe.
Speaker 7: But at least they made like, you know, some comedy
Speaker 7: out of them laying on the table. It's like, and
Speaker 7: I kind of wish we had done more of that
Speaker 7: and more of like Sean, you're kind of a drag
Speaker 7: like in general.
Speaker 8: But so yeah, the end where I'm like looking through
Speaker 8: the window.
Speaker 7: You know, all that, I'm just like, But I also
Speaker 7: feel like we're getting closer to Sean being able to.
Speaker 2: Explain what's going on.
Speaker 8: I feel like, oh, okay, like and I know that
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 7: My dad's gonna die soon. I think it's the next
Speaker 7: episode actually, or we'll have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I think they really did plan to acknowledge that
Speaker 7: Sean is having a hard time with Angela because of
Speaker 7: his upbringing, because of his family, because of his attachment issues,
Speaker 7: basically right, like, he's afraid of loving because people leave him,
Speaker 7: abandon him. And I just wish we had articulated that
Speaker 7: or hinted at that a little better throughout this early
Speaker 7: part of the season because I think it's going to
Speaker 7: all kind of make more sense.
Speaker 8: But as it is, it does just feel like that
Speaker 8: sort of like.
Speaker 7: I got a lot going on, you know, I'm so emotional,
Speaker 7: and I just wish it was you know, a little clearer,
Speaker 7: a little more specific, but otherwise super fun episode. The
Speaker 7: fact that we all end up at the same restaurant,
Speaker 7: the karaoke Ben killing it obviously just and Corey. You know,
Speaker 7: it's so fun when when Corey's anxieties are not driving
Speaker 7: the story, they're just like they're just there for the comedy,
Speaker 7: and you and him were just clearly having so much fun.
Speaker 4: I also thought I thought Me and the Couch was
Speaker 4: the first tag we did where we're kind of making
Speaker 4: each other laugh and you could tell it's all right.
Speaker 2: I lived. I totally forgot about this is just you
Speaker 2: guys going just that.
Speaker 1: Which was laughing and having so much fun.
Speaker 8: I remember this week really well. Actually, do you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember this.
Speaker 7: I remember a lot of it, I think because of
Speaker 7: the song stuff, like everyone's singing and Ben like, I
Speaker 7: just I have so many memories of this episode of
Speaker 7: this week.
Speaker 1: Actually, I, similarly to a lot of other episodes, don't
Speaker 1: have a ton of memories, but do just remember it
Speaker 1: feeling stressful? Really yeah, the singing stuff. The singing stuff
Speaker 1: was just so stressful and I'm not sure why, Like.
Speaker 7: I can tell you there's the I can I remember
Speaker 7: some like so it was basically, I mean, everyone knew
Speaker 7: that Trina could sing, so a lot of this episode
Speaker 7: was built around the idea of getting, you know, a
Speaker 7: moment for Angela to be able to sing.
Speaker 8: But there was a huge rights issue with the song
Speaker 8: that they wanted.
Speaker 7: Because the copyright laws basically made it prohibited expensive.
Speaker 8: And I actually looked this up this morning because I couldn't.
Speaker 8: I remember the.
Speaker 7: Note session where Michael they wanted the song to be
Speaker 7: You've Lost that loving feeling, okay, but that was a
Speaker 7: Phil Spector produced song from like nineteen post nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 7: so we were not going to be able to get
Speaker 7: it without paying a ton of money. And so there
Speaker 7: was all these debates and discussions, and we ended up
Speaker 7: recording shooting two versions where she's sang You've lost that
Speaker 7: love and feeling, and then this the song that they
Speaker 7: did end up using, which is It's in His Kiss
Speaker 7: or whatever. Yeah, And there was like a lot of
Speaker 7: because nobody liked it It's in His Kiss as much
Speaker 7: and Trina didn't want to do that as much, and like.
Speaker 1: It was just me, It's not Trina has a beautiful voice.
Speaker 1: This song does not showcase what she's capable of. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a great song choice.
Speaker 7: Exactly, and that's why everyone wanted the other one. And
Speaker 7: also You've lost that love and feeling was as it
Speaker 7: was about us, right, so it was just this it
Speaker 7: was there was a lot of tension. There's a lot
Speaker 7: of stress, and like Trina was stressed out, and I
Speaker 7: think the way that they she because she wanted the
Speaker 7: other song, and I think they they made her like
Speaker 7: do different takes and try different things vocally. It was
Speaker 7: just a lot of anxiety on set about the performances.
Speaker 7: And I remember Ben being very you know, having very
Speaker 7: fun because his was just as a joke. But like
Speaker 7: I was stressed out about having to sing because I
Speaker 7: have you know, hang ups about singing. And the woman
Speaker 7: who played my date was a great singer, was a
Speaker 7: really good singer, and so I remember her like she
Speaker 7: wanted to change the key of our song and like
Speaker 7: working with Ray Colecord about So this is a lot
Speaker 7: of stuff about the performances.
Speaker 8: And we had a.
Speaker 7: Special singing coach come on, and I think the singing
Speaker 7: coach was working with Trina a lot. It was just
Speaker 7: there was a lot of performance anxiety.
Speaker 4: You guys would know this way more than me, because
Speaker 4: you know way more about the industry than I do.
Speaker 4: When it comes to this kind of stuff. When a
Speaker 4: song goes onto something then becomes really popular, does it
Speaker 4: then become more expensive after that for subsequent shows to use?
Speaker 4: Because I know you lost that loving feeling became hugely
Speaker 4: popular again and top gun.
Speaker 2: Because that's what Tom Cruise says to her. So that
Speaker 2: was nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4: So after it becomes huge again, does it then become
Speaker 4: really expensive after it becomes popular again?
Speaker 2: Is that how that would work?
Speaker 7: They negotiate, so that's why we recorded it both and
Speaker 7: then they probably went to Phil Spector or whoever you know,
Speaker 7: and said, will you give it to us? For a
Speaker 7: good price, and they were like, no, no, because but pre
Speaker 7: nineteen seventy two, you don't have to know if the
Speaker 7: song is earlier, it's it's state laws regulating the copyright,
Speaker 7: and so all the rights become way cheaper and easier
Speaker 7: to use. So like that's why, like Wonder Years, if
Speaker 7: you watch Wonder Years on streaming, they've changed all the
Speaker 7: music because that's all seventy later seventies music. And they
Speaker 7: in order to air first, they paid a certain amount,
Speaker 7: but if they wanted DVD rights or television later rights
Speaker 7: or streaming rights, they had to pay. They had to
Speaker 7: go back and renegotiate for every single song, and it
Speaker 7: was just so expensive they couldn't do it. So they
Speaker 7: couldn't use any of the original music in the original
Speaker 7: it's not even the main title. They couldn't get the
Speaker 7: Joe Cocker.
Speaker 8: So yeah, so that's the thing.
Speaker 7: It's like, it's such a music is a really you know,
Speaker 7: it's just an expensive thing. And the more popular song is,
Speaker 7: the more the person can say, well, if you want that,
Speaker 7: you got.
Speaker 8: To pay me for it.
Speaker 7: And I guess Phil Spector is like notorious for holding
Speaker 7: onto his rights and like making sure that everyone pays up,
Speaker 7: and so there was just like no chance we were going
Speaker 7: to be able to afford it.
Speaker 2: He was notorious for quite a lot of stone.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: The one of the worst though, is negotiating So guest
Speaker 1: starring Janine Jackson as instructor. She has been in a
Speaker 1: ton of movies, her first being the nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: Woody Allen film Zelig Did that He say that?
Speaker 2: I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know Elig Zelig, Zig Zelig. She's also appeared
Speaker 1: in Scrooged, Election seventeen again and The Craft. While on TV,
Speaker 1: she showed up on to Leap Married with Children, American Vandal,
Speaker 1: and Will Seinfeld. Who wait a minute, she's rock San
Speaker 1: in the apartment. Oh she is, Okay, she's still working today, gotcha.
Speaker 1: And then we have Heather Marie Marsden as Kelly no relation.
Speaker 1: You may know her as Kevin's sister on an episode
Speaker 1: of the Office, but she's also been on California Dreams,
Speaker 1: Step by Step, and Charmed. She's the voice of Sarah
Speaker 1: Lyons in Fallout three and a professional dancer in movies
Speaker 1: like That Thing You Do and the First Austin Powers and.
Speaker 7: So you know that she's married to the stunt coordinator
Speaker 7: that you've worked with, probably Danny what's last Yeah, he's
Speaker 7: an amazing stunt coordinator. So she came to the set
Speaker 7: of Girl Meets World and like, we connected. And then
Speaker 7: our kids actually went to the same elementary school for
Speaker 7: a couple of years. Indian ended up transferring out, but like,
Speaker 7: so we've reconnected. Uh I maybe saw her three years ago.
Speaker 8: From the list.
Speaker 2: Wait, he's the one who played your date.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool.
Speaker 7: But yeah, she's married to one of the great like
Speaker 7: legendary stunt coordinators.
Speaker 1: Danny Wayne.
Speaker 8: Danny Wayne, Yeah, Danny Wa Yeah cool.
Speaker 7: So and when Danny was brought on for Girl Meets
Speaker 7: World as the stunt coordinator, Yeah, we did an episode
Speaker 7: about Rodeo Shyla and I directed in a Rodeo episode
Speaker 7: and he was like, you know, my wife was in
Speaker 7: Point Meets World with you. I was like what, And
Speaker 7: so she came and we reconnected.
Speaker 1: Yeah that is so funny.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Kirsten Nelson as Jessica. She's best known now
Speaker 1: as Karen Vick on almost one hundred and twenty episodes
Speaker 1: of Psych, but also appeared in the movie The Fugitive
Speaker 1: and TV shows like The West Wing, Ally McBeal and
Speaker 1: Malcolm in the Middle.
Speaker 4: I remember her the second First of all, she was
Speaker 4: great to work with, but she had an awesome part
Speaker 4: on West Wing. She played his second so so President
Speaker 4: Bartlett had the same secretary you know, the entire time
Speaker 4: he was there, and in all the flashbacks she played
Speaker 4: the younger version of the secretary and one of a writer.
Speaker 4: You and I have had discussed about this episode where
Speaker 4: he decides to run for president again.
Speaker 2: He puts his hands in his pockets. At the end
Speaker 2: the music, the.
Speaker 4: Dire Street Song is playedrals yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: legendary episode. She is, she's the one who plays Missus
Speaker 4: landinggam She plays the young Missus Landing anscer Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: which is great.
Speaker 1: And then we have Kareem Prince as Ron. He started
Speaker 1: his career as Cestro, the blue alien Power Ranger on
Speaker 1: Mighty morphin Power Rangers, but also appeared on Moesia thirty
Speaker 1: three episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful and also
Speaker 1: eight episodes of Malcolm in the Middle. He also recently
Speaker 1: revisited his Power Ranger character for the series Project Zodiac Cool.
Speaker 2: He could also sing I mean they obviously just got
Speaker 2: all the singers.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's what I remember.
Speaker 7: Feeling very sorry for him when we filmed this episode
Speaker 7: because it was a thankless part. He doesn't get to
Speaker 7: do much as an actor, and he had to do
Speaker 7: a lot as a singer. So he was asked to
Speaker 7: sing two different songs, you know, and as based on
Speaker 7: notes that he was getting and like and clearly just
Speaker 7: kind of in a foil, like you know, it's all
Speaker 7: about Trina's performance, it's all about my perform, you know,
Speaker 7: it's all about everything, but this poor guy, and he
Speaker 7: never gets any real laughs.
Speaker 8: But he's great. He's a great singer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was really talented. But yes, I remember this
Speaker 1: week being just I remember. I only remember that set.
Speaker 1: I only remember standing on that stage, and I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny you said they brought in like
Speaker 1: a specialist, like a singing coach. Have no memory of
Speaker 1: the singing coach. But you know who I do remember
Speaker 1: out there with notes and a pencil and all kinds
Speaker 1: of detailed instructions about which key and however we should
Speaker 1: be singing is Michael.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, very Michael. You know, he plays music and
Speaker 7: he's into music. He writes music and yeah, so I
Speaker 7: think he was really focused on that, and I think
Speaker 7: we got a lot of anxiety and stress about.
Speaker 8: Our performance and what the song is and how it's
Speaker 8: mean sung.
Speaker 7: And yeah, I remember this episode, you know, uh, I
Speaker 7: have really fond memories of Ben obviously just messing around
Speaker 7: whenever he got up there to do, but he would
Speaker 7: also my parents came to visit while we were shooting
Speaker 7: this episode, and Ben, you know, like you guys remember
Speaker 7: he always would have like in jokes with basically everybody, everybody,
Speaker 7: every human who ever met Ben, he'd have an in joke.
Speaker 7: And one of his in jokes with my dad from
Speaker 7: the moment he met him at thirteen was the song
Speaker 7: Down with the King. I don't know what, because my
Speaker 7: dad's name is King. So there was some song where
Speaker 7: go Done with the King. I don't know, some hip hop,
Speaker 7: I don't know what it was, but that Ben would
Speaker 7: say that every time he saw my dog. And so
Speaker 7: he was on stage doing the war and he decided
Speaker 7: to do a whole improv Down with the King thing,
Speaker 7: and my parents were just like dying. I just oh
Speaker 7: my god, I just it was like and I remember
Speaker 7: the whole set just being like, why is Ben doing this,
Speaker 7: and he was just doing this in joke for my dad,
Speaker 7: like either while we were filming or during rehearsal, and
Speaker 7: like it became this huge distraction.
Speaker 8: It was so funny, and it's.
Speaker 4: Also just it really highlights how this is two different
Speaker 4: shows now because I was not privy to any of
Speaker 4: this anything music stuff any so I don't remember this
Speaker 4: at all. It's just you guys did your show, we
Speaker 4: did our show, and then we did run throughs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was so strange exactly.
Speaker 1: I know. I when I was watching it and I
Speaker 1: saw the tag and it was so clearly us dressing
Speaker 1: ourselves and messing around, and I thought, I'm so, I
Speaker 1: don't ever really get this feeling watching it, but I
Speaker 1: felt I was annoyed. I was annoyed that I don't
Speaker 1: remember that. But I remember stress and anxiety over how
Speaker 1: the singing was going to come out, and like, I
Speaker 1: know you talking about your stress over singing and then
Speaker 1: the stuff with Trina. I didn't remember any of that.
Speaker 1: With what I had to do, there was stress. Michael
Speaker 1: was really yes and yours is all for comedy.
Speaker 7: I thought you guys were having fun the whole last Yeah,
Speaker 7: I remember Ben.
Speaker 8: Just loving it and having so much fun.
Speaker 1: Ben really was and and so that is what like that,
Speaker 1: I just felt like, man, I was robbed of the memories.
Speaker 1: Why was Yeah, why couldn't even this have been enjoyable?
Speaker 1: Why why were these last especially these last couple of years,
Speaker 1: we're so fraught with anxiety and stress And that's like,
Speaker 1: that's when we're.
Speaker 2: Just on the bubble.
Speaker 8: It was the sense that we were going to get
Speaker 8: canceled or something. Yeah, there's a lot of.
Speaker 7: A lot of pressure and yeah, it's just too bad.
Speaker 7: That's because it should be a fun you know, it's
Speaker 7: a wromp of an episode and a lot.
Speaker 1: Of it is it should it should have been fun.
Speaker 2: So, by the way, for the first time ever found
Speaker 2: the lobster.
Speaker 8: What in the restaurant scene in the Lobster?
Speaker 4: I think it was it's again it's grainy on uh,
Speaker 4: I mean, do you want to know?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: And I could be wrong, but I don't think I
Speaker 4: am again it's grainy because it's it's on Disney Plus
Speaker 4: and it's a little mess.
Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure I found.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so exciting. Okay, so we jumping into our recap,
Speaker 1: we get a rare previously on Boy Meets World. Usually
Speaker 1: used for only two parters, this has Corey catching audience
Speaker 1: members up with parts of the season they may have
Speaker 1: missed that are needed. For this episode. We see various
Speaker 1: Sean and Angela scenes from the moment brous.
Speaker 7: Macking on each other. He was like, what is going on? Like,
Speaker 7: I kept waiting for a line to be there. It's like,
Speaker 7: and here's a shot of them just really they almost
Speaker 7: do it?
Speaker 4: Do we really need my God as sick as you
Speaker 4: can get without actually die?
Speaker 8: And my friend? Yeah, I just seeing it isolated, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, Jesus, we really really went for it there, From
Speaker 1: the moment they broke up to the Christmas kiss to
Speaker 1: the most recent episode where Angela finally tells him that
Speaker 1: things are over and then we're gonna busy birthing class.
Speaker 1: Amy walks in with Eric and he immediately blurts out, Wow,
Speaker 1: these women are fat.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's awful but so funny.
Speaker 7: But I mean that's one of those lines that like,
Speaker 7: if you read it on the page without knowing the
Speaker 7: character of Eric or the actor Wilfredll, you be.
Speaker 8: Like, oh, is this gonna this is this is a
Speaker 8: tough one.
Speaker 7: Could you am I gonna like the person who says this, yeah,
Speaker 7: and it's like yeah, with Wilfred, you're gonna like it.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 8: Amazing that you could pull that off.
Speaker 1: Amy Glare is it in? But ultimately thanks her son
Speaker 1: for filling in on such short notice. Apparently she has
Speaker 1: no idea where Alan is. And that was so interesting
Speaker 1: to me because now my first thought was how do
Speaker 1: you not know? And then I was like, we used
Speaker 1: to not know where people were. Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 1: We didn't have cell phones.
Speaker 4: Right, I thought, I thought about that same thing today.
Speaker 4: You also never knew who was calling?
Speaker 2: Yeah, answer alone? Who is this?
Speaker 4: It wasn't when you didn't get to decide whether you're
Speaker 4: going to talk to this person.
Speaker 7: Which is why like a secretary or would it be
Speaker 7: an important job because you just need someone to like
Speaker 7: answering what people?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, crazy so funny.
Speaker 1: I know. My first thought was like what and then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I guess if you had
Speaker 1: an appointment and someone just didn't show up, You're like
Speaker 1: they could be dead.
Speaker 8: I know it would be the opposite.
Speaker 7: It was like everything was less, like it was less
Speaker 7: precious that people didn't make it, you know, like you
Speaker 7: can land in the city, somebody not make it to
Speaker 7: the airport and you just be like, oh, I got
Speaker 7: to find my own way, and then hopefully we'll meet
Speaker 7: up later, right Like that would and you wouldn't stress.
Speaker 8: You wouldn't be like they must be dead. You'd be like,
Speaker 8: I don't know, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: It was more casual.
Speaker 8: Actually it's better.
Speaker 1: Eric tells her not to worry. There's nothing he wouldn't
Speaker 1: do for a little Eric. Or if it's a girl,
Speaker 1: Eric the girl the girl.
Speaker 7: Now this bumped me a little bit. I was like,
Speaker 7: does she really need to take a birthing class if she's.
Speaker 2: Had three kids?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, what a stretch. I agree. This whole
Speaker 1: premise is ridiculous. By the way, Morgan's only like ten,
Speaker 1: She's not like, it's not like they had a kid
Speaker 1: twenty one years ago, and she's like, there's all kinds
Speaker 1: or they're doing something they didn't do before.
Speaker 2: I'm having a.
Speaker 8: Home birth, a water birth.
Speaker 1: She's just going to the hospital to have a baby,
Speaker 1: like she's.
Speaker 4: Done three other doings lammy lambas, which is how it's
Speaker 4: actually pronounced. Have they been doing that for like twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five years or is that relatively new.
Speaker 1: No, they were doing it back in the day. My
Speaker 1: mother in law gave me a Lama's book when I
Speaker 1: was pregnant. Yeah, not pronouncing it right, Okay, okay, sorry, Eric.
Speaker 4: The girl Erica is so funny.
Speaker 7: It's a clever twist because it's like the obvious joke
Speaker 7: is coming, and then.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then absolutely not. He rubs Amy's bump lovingly,
Speaker 1: but she tells him do not touch my stomach.
Speaker 2: Touch my stomach.
Speaker 1: Amy sets down some comfy pillows on a mat, and
Speaker 1: Eric selfishly decides it's a great place for him to
Speaker 1: lay down. As an instructor tells the mommies and daddies
Speaker 1: to get comfortable. Eric proudly motions to Amy and says
Speaker 1: to another expecting woman, that's my mom.
Speaker 2: I'm her baby.
Speaker 1: Amy points out that the pillows are actually for her.
Speaker 1: Eric moxer you oh you you you about you, isn't it.
Speaker 1: The instructor tells the couples to start with deep diaphragmatic breathing,
Speaker 1: and everyone begins, but while helping, Eric decides he wants
Speaker 1: to keep the conversation going with his neighbor. He asks
Speaker 1: where her daddy is then clarifies her baby's daddy. He
Speaker 1: means the guy that did that to you, pointing to
Speaker 1: her pregnant belly. She says her husband's in the Navy.
Speaker 1: He's on an aircraft carrier in the South China seat.
Speaker 1: Eric understands, Yeah, I'm filling in for my dad. He
Speaker 1: ran out on my mom this morning. Amy jumps in,
Speaker 1: telling the woman, hello, I'm his mother and yet I'm
Speaker 1: having another one. The woman says it's sweet that Eric's
Speaker 1: filling in for his dad, and then introduces herself as Jessica,
Speaker 1: out stretching a hand to Eric. Eric completely ditches his
Speaker 1: mom to shake Jessica's hand, sending Amy rolling backwards and helpless.
Speaker 1: He notices his mom's fall, but instead of helping, he laughs.
Speaker 1: Eric yells, you wobble like a weebl I miss weevils
Speaker 1: and proceeds to rock her back and forth and then
Speaker 1: right on time. Alan rushes into the room, apologizing he
Speaker 1: completely forgot and lost track of time. Eric tells him
Speaker 1: not to worry because he has this whole thing under control.
Speaker 1: He yells at the top of his lungs bush and
Speaker 1: Alan immediately tells him to leave. Eric gets up without protest,
Speaker 1: sending Amy rolling backwards again. The instructor, who has somehow
Speaker 1: been completely unaffected by all this chaos, proceeds with the
Speaker 1: breathing exercises, and then Jessica speaks up, Hey, Eric, if
Speaker 1: you're free, I'd really appreciate it if you'd be my partner.
Speaker 1: His eyes light up. He can't believe it. As he
Speaker 1: walks towards her. He lays it on thick with his parents,
Speaker 1: that's so nice that somebody appreciates me, leading to an
Speaker 1: immature slapping fight with his dadapping at each other. The
Speaker 1: instructor tells the coaches to count three he he he breaths,
Speaker 1: followed by three ho ho ho breaths. Amy asks Alan
Speaker 1: what made him late, and Alan answers I was looking
Speaker 1: at something. When Amy points out his vagueness, he mumbles out,
Speaker 1: mum what ors Eric shouts from his station, A motorcycle,
Speaker 1: right on, dad, But Amy has a different response. We're
Speaker 1: having a baby and you're out looking for motorcycles. Why
Speaker 1: don't you just go all the way and buy yourself
Speaker 1: a yellow Corvette. Alan genuinely responds, you'd be okay with that.
Speaker 1: She scoffs if it gets you to class on time.
Speaker 8: Didn't you Jacobs buy a yellow corvette? Did he?
Speaker 2: Did he?
Speaker 8: You don't remember this.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure this is based on he bought money.
Speaker 7: He bought a very bright sports car around this time.
Speaker 7: Really yeah, and he tells the story.
Speaker 2: It's very fun.
Speaker 8: I remember him telling the.
Speaker 7: Story that he he then had people over for dinner
Speaker 7: and like somehow like they opened up the garage and
Speaker 7: he was suddenly kind of very ashamed of the car, and.
Speaker 8: He was like, this was my midlife crisis, my life
Speaker 8: ridiculous car.
Speaker 7: And he was he was like embarrassed by how bright
Speaker 7: and sporty it was when these friends came over for dinner.
Speaker 7: And I think he ended up getting rid of it,
Speaker 7: for I think this came from a very very real.
Speaker 1: Life so funny. Oh, I love that. That's great. Alan
Speaker 1: writes it off as just being a little late. Besides,
Speaker 1: he's done this three times. He's not like the kids
Speaker 1: in here who have never done this. Eric chimes in,
Speaker 1: old man's getting a yellow corvette.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: He jumps up to congratulate him and proceeds to push
Speaker 1: Jessica into the weebel wobble position, and Alan pushes Amy
Speaker 1: off at the same time, creating the same effect. The
Speaker 1: guys give each other a high five as the women
Speaker 1: roll backwards. And then we're in the student union to
Speaker 1: Panga and Corey are sitting side by side looking a
Speaker 1: little nervous. Then Sean and Angelo walk in together.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure, Yeah, in the union.
Speaker 4: In the student union, you're all sitting on the couch.
Speaker 4: In the background is the store and on the side
Speaker 4: of the no no, so the pool table's over here,
Speaker 4: and then you've got the store over to the right.
Speaker 1: I can you look at but not quite as far
Speaker 1: as the coffee shop is that?
Speaker 2: What is the cop whatever? The student store coffee is
Speaker 2: in the back.
Speaker 4: It's all the way upstage. Yes, the cash register. Pretty
Speaker 4: sure the lobster is on the side of the cash region.
Speaker 4: There's something in the shape of something that looks like
Speaker 4: the lobster, and I'm like trying to pause it and
Speaker 4: check how grainy it is. But I'm pretty sure. That's
Speaker 4: pretty sure. I've been like specifically looking for it now,
Speaker 4: so pretty sure I actually found it.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, shout out Todd with her lobster.
Speaker 2: Lobster.
Speaker 1: Do you remember hiding the lobster on the uh so
Speaker 1: Sean says hello, and Angela thanks them for coming. Corey
Speaker 1: decides to speak first. We know why we're here. You
Speaker 1: don't have to say anything to Panga, adds Corey and
Speaker 1: I discussed it and we've decided.
Speaker 7: By the way, sorry, Yeah, the opening of the scene
Speaker 7: is one of the most awkward things ever, the two
Speaker 7: of you just sitting there not talking to each other.
Speaker 8: You guys are like waiting, waiting, and I look.
Speaker 1: Kind of nervous, and that's it, I.
Speaker 7: Guess, but I get the point is that you are
Speaker 7: kind of nervous and you are waiting awkwardly, but it's
Speaker 7: like not highlighted enough because you're just like it's like
Speaker 7: a wide shot and I was just like, what has
Speaker 7: happened city there?
Speaker 2: Like awkward, Like wouldn't they be talking to one another?
Speaker 8: It ends up making sense, but that first shot, I
Speaker 8: was like, this is they should have made like a
Speaker 8: bigger deal, like, you know, zoom in on you guys
Speaker 8: being awkward. I don't know, as it is. It's like
Speaker 8: someone someone should have looked at their watch exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh so, Tapanga, adds Corey and I discussed it,
Speaker 1: and we've decided we're not going to butt into your
Speaker 1: lives no matter what you do, right, Corey, Corey doesn't hesitate. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you're our best friends, but we have no right to
Speaker 1: tell you to be together if that's not what you want.
Speaker 1: Angela gives him a knowing look, we don't believe you.
Speaker 1: Topenga gets defensive. You don't believe me, Sean clarifies, No, no,
Speaker 1: no him, We don't believe him.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad this scene happened. Yeah in the world.
Speaker 4: I'm just glad because we've been talking about this for
Speaker 4: a while now. And I also like that they they
Speaker 4: kind of went the joking route with it, yes, where
Speaker 4: they didn't. It wasn't real serious. You know, you've been
Speaker 4: putting it on us. It was like, I'm literally, we
Speaker 4: have a restraining order. We drew up ourselves. Great way
Speaker 4: to do it, because he is red flag boy for
Speaker 4: us now. So I love the way that they handled this.
Speaker 4: We're obviously other people were seeing it too, and it's like, agreed,
Speaker 4: let's address it, but in a funny way as it happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, yea.
Speaker 1: So he reaches into his jacket and retrieves a document
Speaker 1: that they've written up specifically for Corey. Corey takes one
Speaker 1: look at it and realizes this is a restraining horde.
Speaker 1: Angela nodds, yes, yes, it is. The Panga reads the
Speaker 1: document out loud. Corey Matthews, and Tapanga Lawrence are hereby
Speaker 1: forbidden to interfere with the separation of or encourage accidental
Speaker 1: rendezvous between Sean and Angela. It refers to her and
Speaker 1: Corey as the aforementioned parties, which causes Corey to gasp
Speaker 1: ever mentioned parties? Is this what we are to you?
Speaker 7: Did you notice later in the episode, I do it too,
Speaker 7: we do it, I do it with it.
Speaker 8: It's like, clearly Ben just loved that movie. Yeah, so
Speaker 8: I do it.
Speaker 2: Later in the clutching, that's.
Speaker 8: What it is.
Speaker 1: Ta Panga assures them, I, for one, do not need
Speaker 1: a piece of paper to know when to butt out.
Speaker 1: Corey scoffs, and I do. His friends shoot at Mclair
Speaker 1: and he admits, all right.
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 1: Angela breaks it down. We love you both, and we
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you've tried to do, but this is the
Speaker 1: best for all of us, and with that she leaves.
Speaker 1: Sean gets up to exit too, but Corey stops him.
Speaker 1: He asks if Shawn's all right with this and Sean
Speaker 1: quickly responds, yes, I'm fine. He adds that both he
Speaker 1: and Angela actually have dates tonight. Sean Hunter has been
Speaker 1: out of circulation for far too long. He's back. He's excited,
Speaker 1: and he's ready to rock and roll. And you do
Speaker 1: a little shimmy while you're.
Speaker 2: Friend.
Speaker 1: It's like the dance I do. When food comes, Corey
Speaker 1: and Tapega both look elated for him. Corey asks, where
Speaker 1: are you going to take her? Shawn's enthusiasm fades. I
Speaker 1: don't know who cares, and then we're at a restaurant
Speaker 1: that is not Chubbies, but it's definitely that Mexican restaurant
Speaker 1: that to Pega and Angela worked at.
Speaker 2: Sure was changed up a little bit, Sure was.
Speaker 1: So it's a double date Corey and Tapanga with Sean
Speaker 1: and his date. But Sean is slumped over the table,
Speaker 1: looking absolutely miserable, almost sleeping. Sean unenthusiastically tells his friends,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys for bringing us here.
Speaker 1: I'm having a really good time. His date earnestly responds, yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I was nervous about going out with Sean
Speaker 1: at first because I heard he just ended a long
Speaker 1: relationship and I thought he'd be a drag. She grabs
Speaker 1: Sean's hand, but he doesn't even move to Banga says
Speaker 1: he's not usually like this, and Corey calls him a
Speaker 1: ton of fun. Sean lets out a sad groan, and
Speaker 1: Topanga begs her fiance to talk to him. Corey quickly
Speaker 1: shakes Sean up right and asks, what's the matter. And
Speaker 1: then we just have two scenes going on as if
Speaker 1: we're not all sitting at.
Speaker 2: The same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's this tushy dance scene where it's like, even
Speaker 4: though Rachel is two inches away, nobody sees nobody.
Speaker 7: That's also happening in the birthing class too a little bit.
Speaker 7: There's like a conversations, you know, It's like it's such
Speaker 7: a it's just a seatum cheat stum cheat.
Speaker 1: Sitcum cheat. If the camera's not on it, they can't
Speaker 1: hear it.
Speaker 2: Yes, you might as well be one hundred miles away. Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Sean sadly admits I'm a little blue. Then he nervously
Speaker 1: asks it doesn't show, does it. Corey tries to be encouraging. No, No,
Speaker 1: you're the life of the party friend. Everybody's thrilled to
Speaker 1: be with you. Meanwhile, Seawn's date asks Topanga, is it me?
Speaker 1: It can't be me. I'm adorable. Tapega responds in a
Speaker 1: baby voice, you are. You're as cute as can be.
Speaker 1: His date figures out he must have really loved this girl,
Speaker 1: and Topanga responds with I can't discuss it. I'm under
Speaker 1: a restraining order. On the other side of the table,
Speaker 1: Sean has passed out again. Corey pokes his head to
Speaker 1: get him up, but Sean doesn't budge. Corey wines, he
Speaker 1: used to be so good at this. You were the king.
Speaker 1: He looks at the girls and emphasizes he was the king.
Speaker 2: He was the king.
Speaker 1: Corey cuddles with on for a moment, then something catches
Speaker 1: his eye. He whispers to Sean, would it make you
Speaker 1: feel any better if I told you that Angela is
Speaker 1: in the same place you are? Sean shrugs, maybe a little.
Speaker 1: In response, Cory yanks him upright, telling him to cheer
Speaker 1: up because Angela is in the same place he is.
Speaker 1: And we see Angela near the hostess booth with her date,
Speaker 1: and this sends Sean's scurrying to his date. He grabs
Speaker 1: her chair and wings This is a big moon like one.
Speaker 4: Yeah strong, but he pulled her all the way over
Speaker 4: next to you in one pole that was well done.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, I remember that. I was just like, whoa, Yeah.
Speaker 4: The people might be yelling at their radios when I
Speaker 4: asked this question. But we never see Chubbies or peg
Speaker 4: like Pete's again, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, No, that's done, Okay, I gone era.
Speaker 7: Well wait did we go back to Chubbies in like
Speaker 7: the final episode at all?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't We'll find out.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 1: So, I says Fioenie. If the sun never sets on
Speaker 1: the British Empire, when do they watch Letterman? He lets
Speaker 1: out an obnoxious laugh, with Corey going on and on
Speaker 1: until Angela and her date walk up.
Speaker 2: He goes, he goes to the hole. The hole is
Speaker 2: always do that?
Speaker 7: I do the same thing, like, I'm like, yeah, he
Speaker 7: always his.
Speaker 2: Hose, hands on the chest for the hose.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Corey notices her, Oh, it's going to be a long
Speaker 1: night to Pega jumps in Angela. Of all the restaurants
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, you chose this one. We don't have that
Speaker 1: many restaurants.
Speaker 4: We've already got Yeah, you chose the restaurant we go to.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Angela nervously responds, what a coincidence, Then she remembers to
Speaker 1: introduce her date.
Speaker 2: Ron.
Speaker 1: Sean stands up to shake his hand and introduces his date, Kelly,
Speaker 1: and to Panga and Corey. Then he introduces Kelly once again.
Speaker 1: To really get the point across, Sean says he understands
Speaker 1: they have a potentially embarrassing situation here, but he hopes
Speaker 1: they can all be mature and have a wonderful time.
Speaker 1: He looks at his ex and calmly states Angela, it's
Speaker 1: always good to see you. Ron seems like a great guy.
Speaker 1: He tells them to enjoy themselves and once more introduces
Speaker 1: Kelly his date. Angela responds, you too, Sean. Nice to
Speaker 1: meet you, Kelly. Then she and Ron walk away. Tepeka
Speaker 1: immediately tries to do some damage control with Kelly. You
Speaker 1: see how much fun Sean can be. She agrees, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the Sean I heard about. Corey uh looks to
Speaker 1: lessen the tension. What a crazy world, huh. He then
Speaker 1: reassures Sean, but don't you worry. You handled that like
Speaker 1: a prince because you're the King of Dating. We are
Speaker 1: all going to have a good tie And as Corey
Speaker 1: continues his pep talk, Sean slowly slumps back down onto
Speaker 1: the table and lets out another awful groan. Corey caresses
Speaker 1: his friend and looks at the girls. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a long night long.
Speaker 2: And I thought it could have. The better joke would
Speaker 2: have been he was the King.
Speaker 8: The King.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, that is a better joke than We're
Speaker 1: in the apartment. Eric is sitting on the couch reading
Speaker 1: Your Pregnancy and You the Complete authoritative Guide. He yails
Speaker 1: out to his roommates. Check this out. It says here,
Speaker 1: the uterus has accordion like folds that can expand to
Speaker 1: accommodate a baby up to twenty two pounds. Man, women
Speaker 1: are so lucky. Meanwhile, Rachel and Jack are sitting at
Speaker 1: the island eating cereal. Jack is grossed out. He reminds
Speaker 1: Eric he's eating. Eric ignores his disgust. It also says here,
Speaker 1: when a woman breaks her water, she's actually lost her mucus.
Speaker 4: Plug, which, I is the only thing about childbirth I
Speaker 4: still know that. I tell people I had no idea
Speaker 4: where I knew that from, Like, oh, did she pass
Speaker 4: her mucus plug and then I watch I was like, oh, this.
Speaker 2: Is where I got it.
Speaker 1: Remember when I was pregnant, will saying to me, you
Speaker 1: still got your mucus pod?
Speaker 2: I did, yes, Will.
Speaker 1: Well. The inmates in the audience grown at that one.
Speaker 1: Jack buries his head in his hand and Rachel drops
Speaker 1: her spoon. Endurable, I'm done. Eric can't believe what he's reading,
Speaker 1: pro Creation Man. Who knew? Then there's a knock at
Speaker 1: the door. It's Alan. Eric is overjoyed to see him
Speaker 1: and shows off his book. How cool is it that
Speaker 1: you and mom get to go through this again? This
Speaker 1: baby stuff is so great. Alan hands' son a pamphlet
Speaker 1: he wants his opinion. Eric guesses what is it? Cribs, diapers,
Speaker 1: car seats. He looks at the cover and his tone
Speaker 1: quickly shifts. You got motorcycles. That's great. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: bring a new life into the world and you're picking
Speaker 1: out a hog. The sarcasm in Eric's voice doesn't deter Allan,
Speaker 1: who flips to his favorite page so he can show
Speaker 1: Eric the wide Glide he has his eye on. After
Speaker 1: a few upgrades, he plans on installing motorcycle Talk Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all these.
Speaker 6: Too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a big bike guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he says he's going to hit the Highway to Hell.
Speaker 1: Eric pretends to be enthused and then asks his dad
Speaker 1: how old are you? Alan answers forty one and corrects
Speaker 1: himself forty three.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Did that freak anybody else?
Speaker 4: Help?
Speaker 2: Yeah, figure me out.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how old I am. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd also be having a midlife crisis if somebody told
Speaker 1: me I was about ready to have a newborn.
Speaker 2: Five years older than him.
Speaker 4: I'm five years older than Rusty was when he he
Speaker 4: was in this episode.
Speaker 2: That freaked me out for like, I paused it and
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god.
Speaker 7: So that means that Eric, Because then the other thing
Speaker 7: that freaks me out is Eric is drinking a beer
Speaker 7: in this episode nod.
Speaker 2: No true beer. Beer. It says your beer. Yeah. Because
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 8: I was like, oh, is Eric twenty one?
Speaker 7: And then I was trying to do the math of
Speaker 7: like if he's forty three, he they must have had kids,
Speaker 7: you know, but they still had kids very early.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Eric is probably twenty one now two closed,
Speaker 4: that'd be my guess, okay, or third year.
Speaker 2: I think they had him. I think they had Eric
Speaker 2: when they were twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: I think that was kind of the plan, was that
Speaker 4: that that's what they talked about as they had him early.
Speaker 2: But then Alan would have still been in the navy.
Speaker 1: Right, we don't know where's the summer of love? Yeah, exactly, so,
Speaker 1: Eric states the obvious. Don't you see what you're going through?
Speaker 1: This is your Middle East crisis? Alan middle age crisis,
Speaker 1: but assures him he's not going through anything. He just
Speaker 1: wants a Harley. Jack pipes up. My dad went through
Speaker 1: the same thing. Rachel nods me too. He got hair
Speaker 1: transplants and tried out for the real world. Alan scoffs,
Speaker 1: I'm not going through anything. Jack's heard this before. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what my dad said right before he smashed up
Speaker 1: his Ferrari. Alan waves them off. Your fathers are silly.
Speaker 1: He turns his attention back to Eric, asking if he
Speaker 1: should or should not get ape hangers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eric tries to get a word in, but Alan makes
Speaker 1: loud revving noises and simulates writing Jack.
Speaker 8: Jack, and he's talking about his stepdad.
Speaker 2: Who's her stepdad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he does say that's what my dad said.
Speaker 4: I know well, because he called his dad his dad
Speaker 4: because his dad is the one who raised him.
Speaker 2: I think they always referred to his desk stepdad is det.
Speaker 8: So interesting because then I think the next episode he's
Speaker 8: like crying over Chet nine. Right, Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So Eric finally stands up in childs pull the bike over.
Speaker 2: Wait I'm sorry, Wait a second.
Speaker 4: So then who because it's the checks his dad, but
Speaker 4: different different moms.
Speaker 2: Right, So Chet's his dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He calls his stepdaddy. I
Speaker 1: think here he says, my dad. That's exactly what my
Speaker 1: dad said right before he smashed up his ferrari. So
Speaker 1: he calls his stepdad his dad because we know Chet
Speaker 1: didn't have a ferrari.
Speaker 2: It's just interesting.
Speaker 8: They wouldn't have just said my stepdad or so.
Speaker 4: The girl, so the woman that Check got pregnant with
Speaker 4: Jack Chet leaves. She marries another guy that becomes Jack's stepdad,
Speaker 4: who raises him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he says when he the first time he
Speaker 1: says it, my dad went through the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's just calling his stepdad his dad.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's confusing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because Chet didn't have a Ferrari, No, no,
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Eric finally stands up in childs pull the bike over.
Speaker 1: Alan finally quits the endine noises, and Eric asks, can
Speaker 1: I give you some tough love? I think you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Rachel decides to mediate for Alan. I think we're all
Speaker 1: pretty sure about what's going on here. And it's okay.
Speaker 1: Jack ads, you're not alone. It's perfectly natural. Eric admits
Speaker 1: they're right, because with every day, with every breath, you're
Speaker 1: one step closer to me.
Speaker 8: This struck me.
Speaker 7: It's a little weird, like just that the three younger
Speaker 7: people are like so like accepting and reasonable and knowledgeable
Speaker 7: about mid life.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, it's just it's also it's just
Speaker 4: a strange character thing. It's it's Alan is in there
Speaker 4: with Eric and Jack and Rachel.
Speaker 2: It's a strange pairing of everybody.
Speaker 7: If I could like rewrite the scene, I would have
Speaker 7: it be that like Eric and and Alan are sort
Speaker 7: of both into motorcycles and having, you know, and then
Speaker 7: you have like Jack be the one person just pick
Speaker 7: one character to like I've been through this with my dad,
Speaker 7: or order.
Speaker 1: To keep it super stereotypical and sexist, have all three
Speaker 1: of the guys totally far obsessed with the motorcycles. Forlan
Speaker 1: to be like, I've seen this before my.
Speaker 4: Dad, the person who should be having this conversation with
Speaker 4: him is mister Feenie.
Speaker 2: I mean, this.
Speaker 4: Should be a Feenie Alan scene and it should Corey
Speaker 4: standing by.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might that.
Speaker 8: That's a really good call. I bet you there was.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's what it was supposed to be, because that's
Speaker 4: what that's the scene is Alan and Feenie.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you want, right You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: This should have been Alan going out and showing Feenie
Speaker 1: the pamphlet and for.
Speaker 8: I swear that that makes so much more.
Speaker 1: Sense right now. Yeah, and you're thinking to yourself, I
Speaker 1: haven't lived and you know, Alan cuts him off.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to cheer me up? Here?
Speaker 1: Rachel takes over again. She tells Alan he doesn't need
Speaker 1: a motorcycle to make him feel younger. He's having a baby.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that could make you feel younger than that.
Speaker 1: Jack agrees for the next eighteen years, that little tiger
Speaker 1: is going to keep you running day and night. Eric
Speaker 1: ads you're not to have time for motorcycles and fast
Speaker 1: cars and nose rings. You've got a new little life
Speaker 1: coming into the world's and who's going to be counting
Speaker 1: on you. Alan hangs his head in shame, and Eric
Speaker 1: yells grow up. Alan retorts, I am grown up. I'm
Speaker 1: so grown up. I don't know if I can do
Speaker 1: this again. Jack shrugs, Sure you can. He did a
Speaker 1: great job two times before. Eric correcson, that's three, but
Speaker 1: Jack stands firm. I said what I said. Alan tells
Speaker 1: them that things are different now he's different, he's older.
Speaker 1: Alan starts to pace the room. When Eric was born,
Speaker 1: he really looked forward to running around and playing baseball
Speaker 1: and football. He slumps onto the floor. I really look
Speaker 1: forward to being more than a father to you. I
Speaker 1: look forward to being your friend, which I think I am.
Speaker 1: Eric nods, of course you are, so, Alan wonders, so
Speaker 1: what am I going to be to this new kid.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be his old man. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to be his old man, Eric, Jack, and Rachel
Speaker 1: look at him with concern until Eric eventually starts to
Speaker 1: nod along with an agreement, assuming that was not what Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was just that, and the audience laughs along,
Speaker 1: probably because they had seen it two other times before
Speaker 1: and that hadn't happened, and now this time you did
Speaker 1: it and they laugh. So we're back at the restaurant.
Speaker 1: Angela and Ron seemed to be having a great time together.
Speaker 1: Then we see Sean, who's laser focused on their date
Speaker 1: instead of his own. Corey tells him he has to
Speaker 1: stop looking at Angela, and Sean says, I think she's
Speaker 1: having a good time to Panga tells him the hard truth.
Speaker 1: She's just trying to move on with her life. So
Speaker 1: should you? Kelly decides to suggest something. They're starting the
Speaker 1: karaoke contest? Do you want to sing? Sean immediately dismisses it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the offer, but I have a no karaoke policy.
Speaker 1: And I thought, in this moment that was very funny
Speaker 1: because you married the queen of karaoke in real life. Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah. This is also when Susan said a line that
Speaker 4: just hit my ear so strangely. She said, do you
Speaker 4: remember the last time you and I did karaoke together?
Speaker 4: I said no, not at all. She said it was
Speaker 4: you and me and Ben Savage together a carpenter's birthday party.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's the strangest sentence I've heard in
Speaker 2: a very long time.
Speaker 4: I guess we just found a booth the three of
Speaker 4: us and started singing at her birthday party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she said, we were singing Journey songs. I don't
Speaker 2: remember it at all.
Speaker 1: So funny. So here we go, guys, Well we hear
Speaker 1: a woman announced, let's give a warm captain Randy's Coco logo.
Speaker 1: Welcome to our first contestants, Angela and Ron. Everyone cheers
Speaker 1: for the couple except for Shawn and Corey. Sean looks
Speaker 1: at Kelly and quickly decides let's put big out a song.
Speaker 1: They dart to the song list as Angela and Ron
Speaker 1: begin the Shoop Shoop song.
Speaker 7: And how this is the ensoorceablement kiss logic of boys everything.
Speaker 8: That's so funny. I was like, oh my god, of
Speaker 8: course they picked this song.
Speaker 1: Yep, they sound great. Everyone watches on with amusement, while
Speaker 1: Sean Death stares at the duo.
Speaker 4: Wait a second, could this be why they added you
Speaker 4: making out in the beginning.
Speaker 2: Because the song in his Kiss?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so maybe that's why they just threw in
Speaker 4: random shots of you guys kissing because the song is
Speaker 4: now it's in his kiss.
Speaker 8: That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Angela and Ron continue to sing and have a great
Speaker 1: time until we transition to Corey and to Penga taking
Speaker 1: the stage to Penga looks at the screen and asks, Cory,
Speaker 1: are you sure this is the right song for us.
Speaker 1: Corey warms up with a little head roll and responds,
Speaker 1: you heard Angela and Ron. If we want to win this,
Speaker 1: we must sing something dramatic.
Speaker 2: Oh so good to.
Speaker 1: Penga knows, but she doesn't think this is the right
Speaker 1: song for them. Corey asks if she wants to win,
Speaker 1: and she admits, of course she does, she just doesn't
Speaker 1: think they're the right people to express this particular sentiment.
Speaker 1: Mind here, it's a beautiful song and they're gonna sing it.
Speaker 1: He then tells Captain Randy to hit it. The music
Speaker 1: starts and Corey aggressively shouts wah. Then Topanga follows it
Speaker 1: up with a very unenthused huh yeah. Corey continues to
Speaker 1: sing screen and you guys are so what is it
Speaker 1: good for?
Speaker 8: Absolutely nothing?
Speaker 1: To Benga is giving absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing? Say it again?
Speaker 1: Good god you all.
Speaker 2: You guys this Cory and Topanga.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Banga, it's so great. This is a great Cory
Speaker 1: and Topanga. Corey stops mid performance, this is all a
Speaker 1: big joke to you, righte to beengo, and then they
Speaker 1: both angrily exit the stage, and then we flip over
Speaker 1: to Kelly and Sean on stage. They've chosen I've Got
Speaker 1: You Babe by Sonny and Cher and Kelly, who has
Speaker 1: a beautiful voice, kicks it off and then Sean joined
Speaker 1: in and he also sounds amazing. They're killing it now. Writer,
Speaker 1: was this one of the first times you sang since
Speaker 1: you had done limiz pretty much? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do have a no karaoke policy in life,
Speaker 7: so me too, do you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm trying to get over it. I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
Speaker 7: I've been practicing, like literally practicing songs, and I'm like,
Speaker 7: this sucks that because we have karaoke all the time,
Speaker 7: like my wife does it at home.
Speaker 8: We have parties, like we're always and I'm always.
Speaker 7: Like the guy not singing because I'm just you know,
Speaker 7: it sucks that I have this like hang up about it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, conscious bad because you have to do a beautiful voice.
Speaker 7: Well it's not good, thank you, but no, I think
Speaker 7: they digitally altered my voice here. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 7: sure that. Yeah, yeah, I mean really yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 7: remember it being a struggle. The hard part from me
Speaker 7: was harmonizing, you know, like the coach being like because
Speaker 7: I had harmonized with her and I kept matching her
Speaker 7: notes and he kept it was like that was a struggle.
Speaker 7: So I was so worked up about that, Like, you know,
Speaker 7: when I was singing my stuff, it was fine.
Speaker 8: But she also changed the key. She and she was smart.
Speaker 7: I think she said, like, riter, your voice is going
Speaker 7: to sound better if it's a little higher.
Speaker 8: So she like knew everything about music, and like.
Speaker 2: Would you say she was in a band.
Speaker 8: She was definitely a singer.
Speaker 7: She was on California Dreams.
Speaker 8: Yeah, she's definitely a singer in real life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: She was a great a good one.
Speaker 2: She was great.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so she was really helpful in support. I
Speaker 7: don't know, I just have to hang out. Like it's
Speaker 7: such a you know, just having done lambiz and never
Speaker 7: really feeling comfortable as a singer and then the pressure
Speaker 7: to like be good. I just internalized that way too much, right,
Speaker 7: So I enjoys it because it's fun, you know, when.
Speaker 1: You when you go sing karaoke at a place like this,
Speaker 1: do they do a contest and there's a winner?
Speaker 2: No? Yeah, I was like, when did this become out
Speaker 2: of in the day?
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, I mean maybe there are places.
Speaker 2: That do that. Then is it just an applause meter,
Speaker 2: because then it's just popularity contest.
Speaker 1: Something I don't I don't know why they I don't
Speaker 1: know why any why why a karaoke place would actually
Speaker 1: do a winner or a loser, because it feels like
Speaker 1: it would just scare people off. Jensen says there are plays,
Speaker 1: says it was a thing, so I guess you know.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh. In the audience, we see Angela and Ron watching
Speaker 1: She's not hiding her jealousy, while Corey and Tapanga are
Speaker 1: admiring the duet. As they start the second verse, Kelly
Speaker 1: grabs Sean's hand and he's instantly uncomfortable. He can't bring
Speaker 1: himself to even continue singing. He apologizes to Kelly, he
Speaker 1: can't do this. We see Angela watching her hard.
Speaker 4: And you storm off another you can't do this, and
Speaker 4: storm off yet another stage poetry singing.
Speaker 8: It's like I can't just overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Well, Kelly, so hard, very understanding. Yeah, it's okay, Maybe
Speaker 1: we can try another time, and they both walk off
Speaker 1: the stage.
Speaker 2: She should have said, that's okay, maybe we can try
Speaker 2: another time. This happened lots of guys.
Speaker 4: Pitch doesn't matter, happens to lots of guys.
Speaker 1: We're in the birthing class. Eric is still Jessica's partner,
Speaker 1: and Amy and Allen are right next to them, listening
Speaker 1: to the instructor. Each parent is holding a toy baby
Speaker 1: and learning how to properly burp their child. Everyone begins
Speaker 1: practicing correctly, except Eric, who smacks the baby in the
Speaker 1: back and sends its head flying off. Heals to the
Speaker 1: instructor miss mind broke. He then asks Jessica to hand
Speaker 1: him the head. Meanwhile, Alan's complaining to Amy that he
Speaker 1: knows how to burp a baby, he doesn't understand what
Speaker 1: they're doing.
Speaker 2: There valid fair Fair.
Speaker 1: As the class continues to practice, Jessica loudly exclaims, oh
Speaker 1: my god. Eric asks what's wrong. His partner reveals, I
Speaker 1: think my water broke. Eric yells again, miss mine broke,
Speaker 1: I mean my partner, her water just broke. He starts
Speaker 1: to freak out, this is real.
Speaker 2: What do we do.
Speaker 1: The instructor loses it too.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm filling in for my sister. All I know is
Speaker 1: burping diapers and he he he. Alan jumps in, completely
Speaker 1: calm and collected. He tells Eric to go get in
Speaker 1: the car, and then he helps Jessica to her feet
Speaker 1: and asks if she's okay. He instructs someone to call
Speaker 1: Saint Vincent's and tell them they'll be there in about
Speaker 1: five minutes.
Speaker 2: Love Rusty, Love Rusty is so good.
Speaker 1: We're in the student union. Sean is pouting on the
Speaker 1: couch as we hear a sad acoustic guitar playing in
Speaker 1: the background. Of course, Cory and Tapanga arrive and take
Speaker 1: a seat next to their friend. Tapanga reminds Sean that
Speaker 1: first dates after a breakup are always difficult. Things will
Speaker 1: get easier, but Shawn disagrees, no, it won't. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with me. Corey says, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with him. You're obviously hurting over Angela and it's going
Speaker 1: to take time. Topanga assures him that when he's ready
Speaker 1: to meet someone new, he will, and Sean says, I
Speaker 1: don't want to meet somebody new. I'd screw that up too, guys,
Speaker 1: it's me he had something great and he killed it.
Speaker 1: Seawan's convinced he's never going to have a real relationship
Speaker 1: like Corey and Tapanga. He calls himself not normal. Cory
Speaker 1: and Tapanga laugh that off. They're not normal either, they're freaks.
Speaker 1: Tapanga agrees, we're freaks who've loved each other since we
Speaker 1: were two. Sean admits they're being friends. It's a.
Speaker 8: Romp that's taking itself very seriously right now.
Speaker 2: But yes, that's a serious wrong.
Speaker 8: It's a serious wrong.
Speaker 2: It's a romp.
Speaker 1: Sean admits that being friends with them has shown him
Speaker 1: how great it is to have a relationship, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to do that. What if he's incapable
Speaker 1: of loving somebody and writer to agree with exactly what
Speaker 1: you said before when we were talking about our overall thoughts,
Speaker 1: I even though yes, this is very serious and will
Speaker 1: I also had the exact same thought, like, dude, you're
Speaker 1: the one. You just had the opportunity to get back
Speaker 1: together with her, and you still said, no, what are
Speaker 1: you complaining about? At least we are getting to a
Speaker 1: place where Sean is capable of saying, I feel different
Speaker 1: than other people. I don't. I just feel like something's
Speaker 1: different with me and I want to be alone, maybe
Speaker 1: more than most people do, and I don't really know
Speaker 1: what it is like. At least we're getting closer and
Speaker 1: closer to him being able to express that totally. Tapega
Speaker 1: calls that crazy, but Sean's pretty convinced. It's hard being
Speaker 1: around the two of them. Corey doesn't know what he
Speaker 1: wants them to do, and Sean says, nothing, It's not you,
Speaker 1: it's me, Corey. For the first time, I'm realizing how
Speaker 1: different we really are. Corey's had a loss for words.
Speaker 1: Sean says he just needs time. He's got to be alone.
Speaker 1: He lets out a soft chuckle and points out, I
Speaker 1: am alone. I think maybe that's something that's bothering us
Speaker 1: a little bit too, is that it'd be one thing
Speaker 1: if if what Sean's expressing is unlike you guys, I
Speaker 1: actually love being alone, right, I love being alone so much.
Speaker 1: I can't even get myself to be in a relationship
Speaker 1: with someone I love. I love her, but like, I
Speaker 1: don't like commitment, and I don't you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why i'd like But instead, he's sad about
Speaker 1: being alone too, but also needs and wants to be alone.
Speaker 8: And so yeah, I don't know. It's just it's kind
Speaker 8: of whatever drama.
Speaker 7: We need it, do, you know, Like that's why I
Speaker 7: wish that, like it was more clear, Like Sean came
Speaker 7: to college and felt pressure to sleep around, like if
Speaker 7: that he's like I want to date other people and
Speaker 7: then started doing that and then missed Angela. And it's
Speaker 7: like I can understand to those impulses, especially at that age,
Speaker 7: right It's like, oh, I want to live life and
Speaker 7: be able to date a bunch of people, but I'm
Speaker 7: also actually really in love with this one person. I
Speaker 7: can't possibly be committed at this age. But that's never
Speaker 7: articulated or played out, and that would make a lot
Speaker 7: of sense. And that's sort of agony of being like, well,
Speaker 7: I want Angela, but I also want to be Like
Speaker 7: that's totally understandable. Everybody feels that, you know, but instead
Speaker 7: they leave it in this vague like something's wrong with me,
Speaker 7: and I don't know it's getting there. I think in
Speaker 7: the next couple episodes it'll be articulated and it'll make
Speaker 7: sense and and maybe that was a plan all along
Speaker 7: and it's totally just good, you know, slow planted seeds
Speaker 7: in the writing, maybe, but it's hard to watch because
Speaker 7: so much of the conflict has been driven by this
Speaker 7: unspeakable angsty like just get it, let it out and
Speaker 7: I and this is an. It's nice that Sean is
Speaker 7: at least saying like, I know something's off, you know
Speaker 7: whereafore it was just like something's off and I can't
Speaker 7: talk about it and run away. At least now we're
Speaker 7: articulating like I'm yes, something's broken, like and that's a
Speaker 7: better Yeah, that's a better scene.
Speaker 8: That's a better approach to the character.
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's also a lot more interesting
Speaker 1: to see somebody just outright say something is wrong with
Speaker 1: me and I don't know what it is, but I
Speaker 1: get to get to the bottom of it alone instead
Speaker 1: of just being like, don't man, just stay away.
Speaker 2: Well, it's active acting.
Speaker 7: It's active versus inactive, right, Like if yeah, it's it's
Speaker 7: just yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we're back at the apartment, Eric, Amy, and Allan
Speaker 1: all burst through the door looking extremely happy. Rachel and
Speaker 1: Jack ask if everything's okay, and Amy is grinning from
Speaker 1: ear to ear. Everything's more than okay. She's the mother
Speaker 1: of a beautiful baby girl. Eric proudly pats his dad
Speaker 1: on the back, and she's got this man right here
Speaker 1: to thank for it. Alan tries to be humble, but
Speaker 1: Eric reminds him that he knew just what to do.
Speaker 1: Alan shakes his head. I didn't do anything. She was
Speaker 1: in trouble. Eric clarifies, I wasn't talking about her. I
Speaker 1: meant me. I was petrified. You saw me. I was
Speaker 1: frozen there. Man, he's proud of his dad.
Speaker 7: Pretty funny that a guy gets all the credit for
Speaker 7: a woman. Yes, that's a very boy meets world thing
Speaker 7: to make a give what a hero. It's all cow
Speaker 7: Earth is super easy. It's been happening, familiar. He boiled
Speaker 7: the water.
Speaker 8: He told somebody to call the hostage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Alan, Yep.
Speaker 1: He did it.
Speaker 7: I mean I get it in terms of the story, like, yes,
Speaker 7: it's great, but it is very.
Speaker 8: Boy meets world.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, logic.
Speaker 1: He is proud of his dad. You knew what to do,
Speaker 1: like always, and you're going to do that for the
Speaker 1: new baby too. Rachel adds, a very lucky new baby
Speaker 1: to have a dad like you. Alan nods, I hope so.
Speaker 1: Jack slyly asks, so are you still getting the new
Speaker 1: Harley because I was thinking about borrowing it. Alan jokes, sorry, Jack,
Speaker 1: you can borrow my station wagon. Jack sarcastically explains how
Speaker 1: the women will really love that. Amy decides to ask,
Speaker 1: so this midlife crisis has always been about the baby, right,
Speaker 1: Alan confesses, There's never been a question about how much
Speaker 1: I want that baby. I'm just worried about how much
Speaker 1: the baby is gonna want me. He's afraid he'll be
Speaker 1: too tired to teach him to play catch or how
Speaker 1: to ride a bike. Maybe they won't have enough energy
Speaker 1: to run around with him like they did with the
Speaker 1: other kids. Eric asks, you think that's what makes you
Speaker 1: a good father. Yeah, you taught me how to swing
Speaker 1: a bat, but any little league coach could do that.
Speaker 1: It was more important that you were there for me
Speaker 1: after I struck out. He made me feel better. You
Speaker 1: were always there for me to help me get through stuff,
Speaker 1: just like you did today. Eric says he'll never be
Speaker 1: too old to do that. Alan pauses for a moment.
Speaker 1: I know I'll never be too old to give my
Speaker 1: son a hug. Eric jokingly tries to refuse it, but
Speaker 1: Alan pulls him in anyway. Rachel decides to propose a
Speaker 1: root beer toast to new baby. He's everywhere.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 1: And they all cheers, and Eric ads and the older ones.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you did too.
Speaker 2: I think so funny.
Speaker 1: That's cute, little little button. And then we're in the
Speaker 1: student union. Everyone is gathered around and Eric is enthusiastically
Speaker 1: talking about Jessica's new baby. You guys should have been there.
Speaker 1: It was a miracle.
Speaker 2: Then he's the room, very catually in the room actually delivered.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: Did this scene make me think so?
Speaker 1: I think truly what happened was Eric Alan got them
Speaker 1: to the hospital safely, but Eric still helped her deliver
Speaker 1: the baby. You were still the partner.
Speaker 2: So I bit the umbilical corse.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you do. Yeah, you pulled the baby
Speaker 1: out and then bit through the umbilical home and in
Speaker 1: your mouth like a cherry stack, like.
Speaker 2: You chose them that you're getting the party. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: then Eric the girl was born.
Speaker 1: Yes. Then he declares I want at least five kids.
Speaker 1: Jack nearly chokes five, I want like one, maybe two.
Speaker 1: Rachel admits I want five, and Jack immediately flips the switch.
Speaker 2: So do I and do we.
Speaker 1: Think this is them? Hinting that there is actually some
Speaker 1: form of relationship going on between the two of them.
Speaker 8: Really, I don't think they were together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think yet.
Speaker 4: Because I think it's they I think we do an
Speaker 4: episode specifically about that, at least the best storyline, specifically
Speaker 4: about where they cross the line from friend to love.
Speaker 2: I don't think we've seen that yet, and we know
Speaker 2: we haven't seen that yet, But I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think Eric walks into them just making out.
Speaker 4: I think the episode shows them PROGRESSI.
Speaker 1: Having their first moment of relationship.
Speaker 2: I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Angela, who has brought Ron along, chimes in. She
Speaker 1: says to Panga wants kids as soon as she gets married.
Speaker 1: Corey quickly does the math. Wait a minute, it takes
Speaker 1: nine months to have a baby. We're getting married in
Speaker 1: nine months? We are When did we discuss the last time?
Speaker 1: This time we talked about this was that we're gonna
Speaker 1: wait and we'll let you know when we decide. So
Speaker 1: we're getting married in nine months. What it's the first time? Exactly, ABC,
Speaker 1: We're getting.
Speaker 2: Married and getting married, that's all. We're getting married.
Speaker 1: He looks at to Panga and giggles, I better go
Speaker 1: brush my teeth to plank to Panga plays along. Oh,
Speaker 1: they all have a laugh as we see Sean walk
Speaker 1: up to the back door, but he stops short. He
Speaker 1: sees his friends and that jerk ron having a blast.
Speaker 1: Instead of joining them, he decides to walk away, and
Speaker 1: then we're in the tag. We're in the restaurant.
Speaker 8: Do you think this was the original tag?
Speaker 7: Or do you think this was a result of rehearsals
Speaker 7: and just you guys messing around?
Speaker 6: Question?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't result.
Speaker 8: Of just.
Speaker 2: It also doesn't really make it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this really would could be out takes from
Speaker 1: the scene because it doesn't make Why are we back
Speaker 1: singing the same song?
Speaker 4: And they just let you guys keep going, which is
Speaker 4: my favorite thing. It's just Ben's dancing.
Speaker 8: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: You heard the same clothes, aren't you.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think they just decided to make this attack because
Speaker 7: rising and it was so funny.
Speaker 1: We are back in the karaoke night scene and Corey
Speaker 1: and Tapanga are on stage singing War, but this time
Speaker 1: Tapanga is just as into it as Corey. We watch
Speaker 1: as Ben and I have fun on stage, singing, ad
Speaker 1: libbing and dancing with an over the top performance making
Speaker 1: each other break and uh, yeah, I's.
Speaker 8: But you don't remember that. Huh, you don't remember having fun.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the fun part of it. I just remember,
Speaker 1: and I think what I remember about this the having
Speaker 1: fun part of it, is it being I think the
Speaker 1: fact that we were breaking was actually a problem while
Speaker 1: we were shooting, and so even though I was laughing
Speaker 1: and we were breaking, the feeling I had was like,
Speaker 1: we really need to get it together because because it's
Speaker 1: causing a problem and yet not, you know, not really
Speaker 1: being able to control it. So I don't but you know,
Speaker 1: maybe my memory is just wrong, and maybe my memory
Speaker 1: is that I took on a lot of the other
Speaker 1: stress from other people's scenes and singing, and maybe this
Speaker 1: was always the plan and Ben and I did just
Speaker 1: have a great time up there, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the only thing I was left with was a stressed
Speaker 1: feeling instead of the fun feeling. So it's entirely possible
Speaker 1: that my memory is.
Speaker 7: Wrong, because my memory is that you and Ben had
Speaker 7: a fun week. Okay, like that, I remember laughing NonStop
Speaker 7: at what you guys were doing, and all the rest
Speaker 7: of everybody else very stressful week, like I remember feeling,
Speaker 7: you know, and watching it back, I was like, man,
Speaker 7: I just was nervous about the singing and about everything.
Speaker 7: It was just a lot. There was a lot going on,
Speaker 7: and to see it back, I was like, that's right.
Speaker 7: Ben and Danielle were just laughing, having so much fun
Speaker 7: with it. So I don't know that's my memory, but.
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