Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm great. I just warmed up my coffee. I'm in
Speaker 2: my new I'm in my new location. I was gonna
Speaker 2: look very similar.
Speaker 1: It's it's similar, but I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: is that a new lamp? Yeah, new new lamb, like
Speaker 1: all slightly different. Right, the book shelves a little further
Speaker 1: over that way. The doughnuts now kind of more out
Speaker 1: of your head as opposed to directly next to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben Franklin is still up here, the bust of
Speaker 2: Ben Franklin.
Speaker 1: Bust of Ben Franklin, as it should.
Speaker 2: Be prominently displayed. But yeah, no, this is my first
Speaker 2: recording from my new house, my new office and my
Speaker 2: new house, so hopefully. Oh it's great. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'm still kind of like figuring out
Speaker 2: where things go. But no, I'm very very excited to
Speaker 2: have just so long.
Speaker 1: How long have you been in the house now? Officially
Speaker 1: about two weeks?
Speaker 2: About two weeks we had movers finally move the heavy
Speaker 2: furniture yesterday and like all of my plants and my
Speaker 2: totally figs and all of the all of the heavy staff. Right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's been a couple of weeks. It's great. Love,
Speaker 2: I love it, you know, like I'm living here and
Speaker 2: not living in two different places.
Speaker 1: That it's the worst. It is the worst, that weird
Speaker 1: overlap of.
Speaker 2: I mean limbo.
Speaker 1: To be fair, though, that limbo is a luxury sometimes
Speaker 1: because if you've ever had to move directly from one
Speaker 1: to the other, you know that also sometimes that limbo
Speaker 1: is actually kind of a lifesaver where you can go
Speaker 1: in between.
Speaker 2: But totally, totally, I feel very privileged to be able
Speaker 2: to move as slowly as I did.
Speaker 1: But it's such a Yeah, moving just in general, is
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't it one of the top six most
Speaker 1: stressful things in your life? Yeah, it's like death, divorce, moving, I've.
Speaker 2: Been through all. I've been through all of them.
Speaker 1: I've been through a lot of them, so I've done
Speaker 1: all that. Sometimes I like to do like four out
Speaker 1: of six at once, you know, just a challenge, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like, oh, how many of these can I
Speaker 1: mark off at once?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Before completely collapsing?
Speaker 2: Yes, oh goodness. But yeah, we had our first earthquake
Speaker 2: in the house too. Remember we had a.
Speaker 1: Few quite timely, Yeah, we very timely. Considering what we're
Speaker 1: discussing today discussing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, I was a little bit worder. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is that an earthquake? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, and they were a little further out your direction
Speaker 1: kind of. They were more like Pasadena Lachnata area.
Speaker 2: Yes, there were not your way, but Lake elsinor too,
Speaker 2: which is a little bit more out my way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I feel like we've because we've been through
Speaker 2: so many earthquakes. I feel like sometimes I'm like, am
Speaker 2: I just dizzy? Like am I just old and dizzy?
Speaker 1: Or I'm a little Oh the pools washing. That's always
Speaker 1: how I know, because I'll be out here in my
Speaker 1: office or I'll be and if I see the pool starts, well,
Speaker 1: the first indication is, yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 2: More accurate than the Richter scale or the it's more accurate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can I know exactly what what it measures
Speaker 1: on the Richter scale by how far my pool slashes.
Speaker 2: So did you feel any of these recent earthquakes or
Speaker 2: do Yeah?
Speaker 1: You felt yeah, Okay, I felt him. I usually like
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I'll feel sometimes the ones in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night too, I'll like wake up and feel it,
Speaker 1: but I don't if it kind of ends pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, all right, it's tapering off. I don't
Speaker 1: need to like get out of bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, the level of panic is directly related
Speaker 2: to how tired you are, right well, and I.
Speaker 1: Think when the kids were littler too, it was like
Speaker 1: any little like I you know, it was immediately and
Speaker 1: that now I'm like, okay, they probably slept through that,
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't even notice. But no, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: we've had We've had several lately.
Speaker 2: It's been you know, it's earthquake weather. It's hot and dry,
Speaker 2: and that's man.
Speaker 1: We live in yeah, in California, and Japan's been having
Speaker 1: some so yeah, you know that little uh, that little
Speaker 1: Pacific ring of fire.
Speaker 2: But I know everyone says, oh, I'm so glad I
Speaker 2: don't live in LA because earthquakes, And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you don't. You don't get warnings about them, which
Speaker 2: is kind of better for people who are anxious like me,
Speaker 2: and like, I'd rather not have warning because then you hear,
Speaker 2: you experience, you.
Speaker 1: Have just to know sort of you know, all these
Speaker 1: there's no warning, but also like it's kind of nice
Speaker 1: to have a heads up, you know, and be like okay,
Speaker 1: I can board up my windows for the hurricane, or
Speaker 1: like go into.
Speaker 2: A go anker. Yeah, you know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm of the mind that if there's going to be
Speaker 1: a natural disaster, just give me five minutes, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, hey, don't stand under that thing, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's all I want to know.
Speaker 2: I'd rather not know. I'm like, either I'll surviving this
Speaker 2: or I'll die. And either way it's only five minutes
Speaker 2: of my life, and I don't I won't wag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very opposite because normally I'm a prepared person
Speaker 2: and you're not.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know that my reaction is
Speaker 1: going to be wildly different. I just might change location, true,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I just might not be
Speaker 1: naked in the shower. Really, that's mostly my concern is,
Speaker 1: like is this going to catch me at in a
Speaker 1: moment where like I have to throw clothes on? Are
Speaker 1: my shoes available? Like what's happening? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That's the old Like I said, five minutes, even, just
Speaker 1: let me put some pants on, you know, pants and
Speaker 1: not flip flops, like and some proper footwear and then
Speaker 1: I'm then I can I'm ready for anything and I
Speaker 1: don't want it. Yeah, hitting, yeah, I don't. I know
Speaker 1: it can't be, you know, naked in the shower and
Speaker 1: I'm slipping, And it's just in that regard, I would
Speaker 1: just like a little a little warning.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, well.
Speaker 1: They do have the like the the earthquake sort of warnings.
Speaker 1: Now they're getting more and more.
Speaker 2: I just did that app. There's a shake. There's a shake. APP.
Speaker 1: I thought you didn't want to know, but I want
Speaker 1: to apps.
Speaker 2: No, but I want to know. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: believe that an app can predict or can know that
Speaker 2: there's an earthquake happening minutes before app It's well, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's does it does it actually give earth?
Speaker 1: Does the Earth does things? Before the earthquakes are down
Speaker 1: in the center of the Earth, there's usually a I
Speaker 1: mean not like a huge warning, but like right, a
Speaker 1: little bit. And really the thing is is it's more
Speaker 1: about learning what the patterns are. So that's sort of
Speaker 1: the that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I've only gotten one alert so far, and it
Speaker 2: was for an earthquake in Japan, so it hasn't been
Speaker 2: super helpful for me.
Speaker 1: Anybody had Remember when we were doing press in Japan
Speaker 1: and there.
Speaker 2: Was I forgot about that. We were Yeah, we were
Speaker 2: sitting you, me and Candas were sitting and there's a
Speaker 2: Netflix backdrop behind us. Yeah, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we're like, is that an earthquake? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was Japan. And everyone in Japan's like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: isn't fine, there's like keep going, keep yeah. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I remember Canos got really freaked out. She was like,
Speaker 1: I need to know what exit is and yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I was like, it's Japan, They've planned for this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was wild, yeah, because it was like
Speaker 1: a pretty it was a decent it was a big,
Speaker 1: like a five something significant. Everyone was pretty non plussed.
Speaker 1: Honestly though. For earthquakes, Japan is the place to be.
Speaker 1: They it is so built or top of the line,
Speaker 1: like earthquake.
Speaker 2: They are prepared. Yeah, they know what they're doing, they're prepared,
Speaker 2: they're calm. Yeah, let's yeah, we should all.
Speaker 1: Be in basic basically the opposite of us. They know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, they're prepared, they're calm. Should we should
Speaker 1: we get into this step into this episode? Please? Before
Speaker 1: we just keep freaking everybody out before talking, for everybody
Speaker 1: downloads the earthquake apps and yeah right, it's analyzing the
Speaker 1: fault lines.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back to Howard you Tannerito's. My name is
Speaker 2: Andrea Barber and I'm Jody Sweeten, and today we're discussing
Speaker 2: Season three, episode eleven, titled after Shocks. It originally aired
Speaker 2: on December eighth, nineteen eighty nine, and it goes a
Speaker 2: little something like this earthquake, A tremor shakes everyone up,
Speaker 2: especially Stephanie, who immediately becomes a clingy daddy's girl. So
Speaker 2: for some context for our listeners who may not know,
Speaker 2: this episode was telecast less than two months after a
Speaker 2: real life San Francisco earthquake, which took place in Loma
Speaker 2: Prieda on October seventeenth, nineteen eighty nine. It was a
Speaker 2: six point nine magnitude and the aftermath was very grim,
Speaker 2: with sixty three people losing their lives, thousands of people injured,
Speaker 2: and widespread property damage. So this is an important episode.
Speaker 2: This is a really deep, meaningful, important and timely episode
Speaker 2: at the time, so it deserves some good conversation, and
Speaker 2: we are going to have good converse today and coming
Speaker 2: up later this week too. Yea. It was directed by
Speaker 2: Billy Foster Coffee Coffee, I want to say Billy Coffee Foster,
Speaker 2: Billy Coffee FS. Okay, I'll change it up. He directs
Speaker 2: a lot more, so I'll change And it was written
Speaker 2: by Jeff Franklin and Lenny Rips, two of our favorites,
Speaker 2: you know, knocking it out of the park. We have
Speaker 2: Nancy Dessaut as doctor Marion Steiner. She's best remembered as
Speaker 2: Muriel Rush on Too Close for Comfort, she played the
Speaker 2: mother of Lydia Cornell's character, who we've.
Speaker 1: Also had on the podcast I Love That and on
Speaker 1: Full House, Wow, it's too close for comfort? Just you
Speaker 1: know what? We could have moved too close for Comfort
Speaker 1: into full House. Yeah, we should have done.
Speaker 2: We should have combined, we should have done across over across.
Speaker 1: Yeah, too close for full house or too full for
Speaker 1: comfort something I don't know.
Speaker 2: Too full for comfort for comfort. Yeah. And Nancy also
Speaker 2: had a very prolific career in acting. She did forty
Speaker 2: eight episodes of The New Dick Van Dyke Show and
Speaker 2: many appearances on the Love Boat, Matt Locke Murder. She
Speaker 2: wrote Matt About You and a lot of other things
Speaker 2: that we don't have time to talk about. Yeah, she's fantastic.
Speaker 1: She was great.
Speaker 2: And then we have Aaron McNelly as Aaron. This is
Speaker 2: her only credit on IMDb, but she's a very special
Speaker 2: guest star because she's a little girl that Stephanie meets
Speaker 2: in the therapist's office, and she was a seven year
Speaker 2: old who had cystic fibrosis who Jeff heard about through
Speaker 2: the Starlight Foundation, which is an organization that grants wishes
Speaker 2: to seriously ill children. And it was Aaron's wish to
Speaker 2: be a movie star, and Jeff granted that wish. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's such a like I just got more fuzzy. He's
Speaker 2: just thinking about that really special, very special and sadly
Speaker 2: Aaron passed away in two thousand and eight at the
Speaker 2: age of twenty six. So very very glad that she
Speaker 2: got to be part of a very special episode.
Speaker 1: That means me happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we start with the teaser in Jesse's room.
Speaker 2: Jesse and Joey are sitting on Jesse's bed. Jesse's playing
Speaker 2: the guitar and Joey is playing the harmonica while wearing
Speaker 2: a beret.
Speaker 1: Berets were very big. Do you remember Dave actually used
Speaker 1: to wear that beret, yeah, and play the harmonica like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was actually yeah, that was not a like a
Speaker 1: full house thing. That was just yeah, Dave had a
Speaker 1: beret and played the harmonica.
Speaker 2: I love that image of them just sitting back with
Speaker 2: their sunglasses on, right, just playing the harmonica and the guitar.
Speaker 2: That's just that's so them. Yeah. Michelle walks in and
Speaker 2: loudly requests the Teapot song, and Jesse obliges and tells
Speaker 2: Joey let's give her some Teapot blues.
Speaker 1: Ooh.
Speaker 2: The guys both slide on a pair of black sunglasses
Speaker 2: and do a bluesy ren edition of I'm a Little Teapot,
Speaker 2: and Michelle does the little accompanying dance.
Speaker 1: It's a classic.
Speaker 2: It's a classic. She's so cute. The song ends, Michelle
Speaker 2: shouts rock and roll, and the guys continued to play
Speaker 2: as Jesse tells Michelle to shake that tushy. It was
Speaker 2: very they the Olsens loved this.
Speaker 1: They dance, yeah, yeah, they're little shaky dance. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: love that. And I have to say, does John have
Speaker 1: leopard cowboy boots on? Are they like leopard calfskin? Cowboy
Speaker 1: boots like they're sort of they're fuzzy, like I can
Speaker 1: tell they are, not that they have.
Speaker 2: I wasn't looking at his feet. I did see the
Speaker 2: leopard skin. Tell you they blanket on behind him on
Speaker 2: his bed. No, this was on his feet.
Speaker 1: He had like like animal hair, some sort of not
Speaker 1: like long hair, but like you know, the calfskin were
Speaker 1: like on a on a they were leopard.
Speaker 2: They were leopard leopard boots doesn't choice so they're not
Speaker 2: silver tipped, but they were.
Speaker 1: No, but they were. They were aggressively square toed leopard boots.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, aggressively they were very like edgy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a big gap.
Speaker 2: Was this John's way of dressing in real life? Like,
Speaker 2: I don't remember him making such bold choices, but he
Speaker 2: wouldn't wear something we didn't want to.
Speaker 1: So she must say, Jesse, that was what he would
Speaker 1: have worn. I mean in real life. Now he realized
Speaker 1: he was sweatpants and sweatshirts and a backwards hat, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, not a bold choice for Jesse.
Speaker 2: For Jesse definitely fit the character. Yeah, that's hysterical. I
Speaker 2: did not notice the boots, but I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Go back and watch it so prominently. I'm raped, I'm
Speaker 1: on the floor there they're sitting, and then I was
Speaker 1: just like, wow, intense.
Speaker 2: Pulling focus from the scene.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. I was like, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: song they're playing. All I can see is leopard boots.
Speaker 2: So next we are in the kitchen. Jesse pulls out
Speaker 2: a green toy from the garbage disposal. He turns to
Speaker 2: Michelle and asks how Gumby got stuck in there. She
Speaker 2: throws her hands up and she says, don't look at me.
Speaker 2: Just then Joey walks over and notices, Hey, you found
Speaker 2: my Gumby?
Speaker 1: DJ is gummy?
Speaker 2: Even?
Speaker 1: Like do people? Did kids even watch Gumby anymore?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Well, yeah, is he so watching.
Speaker 1: Clay Nation Gumby?
Speaker 2: I had a Gumby. I loved my Gummedy.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think that means that they don't
Speaker 1: sell them anymore. If we if it was something that
Speaker 1: we had and loved children, that's definitely gone.
Speaker 2: It's now in this smithsona Now yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're like, look at this in a cage, this little box. Yeah, Gumdy,
Speaker 1: what does it do? Nothing? It just stands there.
Speaker 2: What. Yeah, it was fast, That was it.
Speaker 1: That was what you had. Maybe it stretched a little
Speaker 1: bit because it was gumby.
Speaker 2: We had very low expectations as children. So DJ and
Speaker 2: Kimmy walk in coming back from school. DJ excitedly announces
Speaker 2: that she got her costume for the Christmas play tomorrow.
Speaker 2: She expects the family will think it's cute, but if
Speaker 2: they don't, she begs them to lie since she has
Speaker 2: to wear it anyway. Caim me ask Joey and Jesse
Speaker 2: if they did any work today or if they just
Speaker 2: played housewife? Dang rude Kimmy me, damn rude to the
Speaker 2: guys and rude to housewives? Like how how many people
Speaker 2: can offend?
Speaker 1: I mean a considerable about of the population right in
Speaker 1: that joke. But I yeah, but you know what though,
Speaker 1: but they're always mean to Kimmy, so I always I
Speaker 1: was also kind of like, yeah, you know what, Kimmy,
Speaker 1: come here, say dishes some things? Yeah, yeah, talk. Some
Speaker 1: people are always mean to you.
Speaker 2: You're a child, you know, you know, so you do
Speaker 2: have a point, Yeah, you do have a point.
Speaker 1: And also she's not wrong. I mean what these guys
Speaker 1: are sitting in bed playing guitar for a toddler with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are what are they doing? Really so right?
Speaker 2: Jingles? I guess you know, I know.
Speaker 1: Kimmy is not entirely wrong. What what are you.
Speaker 2: Guys doing fishing toys out of the garbage disposal and.
Speaker 1: Shaking their tushies and yeah.
Speaker 2: Playing harmonicas who knows?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Joey snarkily responds, I called your mom. You can move
Speaker 2: back home. Your room's been painted and all the repairs
Speaker 2: from the earthquake are finished. Actually they were finished yesterday,
Speaker 2: but somehow she forgot to call. Kimmy sighs. She hates
Speaker 2: to leave because she feels like part of the family. Now. See,
Speaker 2: poor Kimmy, she just wants to live in the house.
Speaker 2: That's all she ever wanted.
Speaker 1: Again, we can deep dive into Kimmy's pathology here, but
Speaker 1: she just wants to be loved. Yeah, here, everyone's being
Speaker 1: means to her.
Speaker 2: Yep, Jesse sarcastically remarks, you've only been here two days,
Speaker 2: but gosh, Joseph, doesn't it seem like a lifetime. Kimmy
Speaker 2: picks up Michelle and places her on the ground, giving
Speaker 2: her a little kiss on the head. She tells her
Speaker 2: it's been a slice.
Speaker 1: What was I'd never heard that. It's been a slice.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that a slice of was, slice
Speaker 2: of life? A slice of pizza? I had never heard
Speaker 2: it either.
Speaker 1: That feels I've never heard it. That is, that feels
Speaker 1: like a like a like a throwback to like old
Speaker 1: lingo from the writer's room or something, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, the writers are like, yeah, say it's
Speaker 1: a slice, and like the kids are like, what the
Speaker 1: what is he talking about? What are these old people
Speaker 1: on about? Yeah? Yeah, I'd never heard it. But I
Speaker 1: will say this was a very cute little moment between
Speaker 1: Kimy and Michelle. Right, I was taken a back, like
Speaker 1: rarely does Kimmy uh like show affection. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never really touched my God, like when I
Speaker 2: picked her up, I kissed her on.
Speaker 1: The head, kiss on the head. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It might have been my very first scene with her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was. It was strangely out of character, but it
Speaker 2: also worked like it worked for me and it fits. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I it was very pleasantly surprised. So Kimmy tells
Speaker 2: the guys she's gonna go upstairs and pack, but Jesse
Speaker 2: immediately grabs her pink Duffel bag, saying, no need, we
Speaker 2: already packed for you. Michelle runs up to Kimmy, begging
Speaker 2: her not to go because she'll miss her. She hugs
Speaker 2: Kimmy's leg, and the crowd awe at the sight, like,
Speaker 2: what this is a rare moment of affection towards Kimmy.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I was like, oh, everyone's a little traumatized.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was like, Michelle's needing some people. Kimmy doesn't want
Speaker 1: to leave, and for a little little messed up. It's
Speaker 1: only two weeks, and yeah, maybe everyone's a little clinging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when has Michelle ever been connected to kimmynut never Never.
Speaker 2: It's kind of threw me, but yeah, maybe it's because
Speaker 2: of the earthquake that Michelle's feeling a little clany, so
Speaker 2: is feeling Yeah, yeah, Michelle has feelings, Kimmy has feelings.
Speaker 2: Everyone has feelings except Joey and Jesse in the scene, right,
Speaker 2: So Kimmy looks to Jesse and exclaims the goofball worships me.
Speaker 2: She asks Michelle if she should stay one more night,
Speaker 2: and Joey and Jesse frantically gesture no to Michelle. Michelle
Speaker 2: doesn't catch on making the no gestures while telling Kimmy yes,
Speaker 2: So Kimmy declares that she's staying. Michelle kindly offers to
Speaker 2: take the duffel bag back to her room and drags
Speaker 2: it out of the kitchen. Steph walks in happily, asking
Speaker 2: the family what's going on. Kimmy explains that she was
Speaker 2: about to go home, but everyone begged her to stay
Speaker 2: one more night. Steph rolls her eyes first the earthquake.
Speaker 2: Now this, haven't I been through enough? It's still very
Speaker 2: early in our frontem me ship here, you know, season three,
Speaker 2: but it's building. I get it.
Speaker 1: Since Oh it's great, yep, there's.
Speaker 2: A lot more to come. Just then DJ glides down
Speaker 2: the stairs shouting ho ho ho, well dressed as missus Claws.
Speaker 2: Joey tells DJ that if his belly shook like a
Speaker 2: bowl of jelly, she'd be his kind of woman. Jesse
Speaker 2: raises his eyebrows, if your belly shook like a bowl
Speaker 2: full of jelly, and then gives Joey's stomach a couple
Speaker 2: of pats. Why about but it's not overweight. No, They've
Speaker 2: done this joke a couple of times now, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: this it's not. That's not a thing, like let's yeah,
Speaker 2: let's stop with these types of jokes. But yeah, they're
Speaker 2: like brothers, they're just in each other.
Speaker 1: But it's also, yeah, it's kind of a guy thing,
Speaker 1: like you're like, it's not. Yeah, no, it didn't anyway,
Speaker 1: it didn't totally work for me. But it didn't totally work, yeah,
Speaker 1: because because yeah, Dave's not No, they just put him
Speaker 1: in sweaters.
Speaker 2: He just wore terrible sweaters.
Speaker 1: Just wore terrible sweaters. And meanwhile, you know, John's wearing
Speaker 1: pants that are seven sizes too big. No one says
Speaker 1: anything to him.
Speaker 2: Why didn't his jeans ever fit? Like they're very lightwash,
Speaker 2: they're very large.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but skinny jeans wouldn't have worked on him either,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there only wasn't It wasn't there yet.
Speaker 2: They were Yeah, you had a little they were a
Speaker 2: little baggy.
Speaker 1: They had to make it look like the boots didn't
Speaker 1: make your people look giant, you know, they had to
Speaker 1: make it look proportional.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh gosh. So, when asked what she thinks of
Speaker 2: the costume, Steph decides to tell her it's great and
Speaker 2: that it matches the red pimple on her nose. DJ
Speaker 2: doesn't believe her. She runs over to the toaster as
Speaker 2: she tells everyone, no, she's never had a ZiT, but
Speaker 2: one glance at her reflection and she realizes it's true.
Speaker 2: She complains that this can't be happening. Jesse tries to
Speaker 2: console her, telling her it's a part of life. DJ
Speaker 2: reminds them that she has to be missus Claws tomorrow
Speaker 2: in front of the whole school, and Kimmy jokes, you
Speaker 2: can always switch parts and play Rudolph. Not helpful, Kimmy,
Speaker 2: but funny. DJ fires back, what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2: Parakeet legs and runs up the stairs away from everyone. Kimmy,
Speaker 2: who has no shame, walks over to Jesse and notes, ooh,
Speaker 2: cranky pimple. I don't know. I think Kimmy kind of
Speaker 2: deserved that. She kind of deserves it. Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Although I'd say that to my friend too. Yeah, it's joking.
Speaker 1: Though we have parakeet legs. I did.
Speaker 2: That's true. White legs.
Speaker 1: Soults that have been tossed in this room have not fit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Everyone's just kind of calling out facts as they see him.
Speaker 2: So this is true. That's true, sure, sure. So next
Speaker 2: we cut to Stephan DJ's room. It's the middle of
Speaker 2: the night and we hear a low rumbling outside. Steph
Speaker 2: immediately gets out of bed and runs over to DJ.
Speaker 2: She shakes her bed, trying to wake her up. She
Speaker 2: repeatedly asks DJ, do you feel that shaking? DJ wakes
Speaker 2: up begrudgingly and responds, yes, I feel it, Stop shaking me.
Speaker 2: Steph turns on the light and tells the girls she
Speaker 2: thinks they had another little earthquake. Jimmy gets up from
Speaker 2: her rollaway bed and tells Steph not to be a
Speaker 2: scaredy cat. She checks the window and points out that
Speaker 2: her little earthquake is just a garbage truck. Garbage truck
Speaker 2: is picking up garbage in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: Is that weird?
Speaker 1: I thought that too, But then I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's industrial trash. And also the streets are narrow,
Speaker 1: old houses, windows rattle. I was trying to think of
Speaker 1: reasons why that garbage truck would cause such a problem
Speaker 1: and be out in the middle of the night, and
Speaker 1: I thought, maybe, you know, I don't know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they collect trash at night there, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they were just like returning the trucks to
Speaker 2: the distribution center, like at two in the morning. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've thought too much about it.
Speaker 2: I've thought way too much about this. So DJ tells
Speaker 2: Steph to go back to sleep. Steph asks, how can
Speaker 2: you sleep when there's a garbage truck pretending to be
Speaker 2: an earthquake. She stomps out of the room, telling the
Speaker 2: girls she's gonna check on Michelle to make sure she's okay.
Speaker 2: And I have to say, our BedHead in this scene
Speaker 2: is very on point. You have curls for days growing
Speaker 2: out of your head. Ye.
Speaker 1: They literally they just took it out of the style
Speaker 1: that it was in the first scene, like half up,
Speaker 1: half down and hair sprayed, and then we're like just
Speaker 1: let it out like it would normally look. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was very hair though. Your hair in this episode looks fabulous.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. I wasn't sure how I felt about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's better than season two.
Speaker 1: Have AREAIP at the end, I liked it.
Speaker 2: My hair just does my hair still does that. It
Speaker 2: does like weird curl. It has like cawlyicks all over,
Speaker 2: not just at the scout but all over.
Speaker 1: But at the Yeah, it really it was. It was
Speaker 1: very it was cute.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it. Let H, I've entered my
Speaker 2: scrungey era and I've just like the little the little
Speaker 2: scrunchy on top of my head.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then the errant curls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that looked great.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you?
Speaker 1: Not give me to like it all?
Speaker 2: No, now it's resembling real hair. Finally. It took a season,
Speaker 2: but we're here now. Kimmy turns to DJ and asks
Speaker 2: how her ZiT cream worked. She's not so sure, so
Speaker 2: she decides she better go check. We cut to Michelle's
Speaker 2: rom where Steph is shaking Michelle's bed, trying to wake
Speaker 2: her up. Michelle smiles at her and announces good morning.
Speaker 2: Steph explains, it's not morning. You're having trouble sleeping. Michelle's like,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: Gaslighting. I'm I'm not waking you up. You're having trouble sleeping, right,
Speaker 1: poor kid.
Speaker 2: Steph nods and tells her little sister to come with her.
Speaker 2: They'll go sleep in their dad's room. Ah. Michelle crosses
Speaker 2: her arms and shouts, this is nuts. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Michelle's the Greek chorus, You're not wrong, So nobody's saying
Speaker 1: wrong things right right? This is yes, this is nuts.
Speaker 2: So Steph grabs her hand and leads her out of
Speaker 2: the room or forces her out of the room, or
Speaker 2: like we cut to Danny's room where Danny is snoring
Speaker 2: fast asleep.
Speaker 1: So everyone in this house sleeps like Dracula in a coffin.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I mean, like no one
Speaker 1: is to turn on their side and like nestled into
Speaker 1: the pillow and like, no, everyone is flat on their back,
Speaker 1: chin's up to their like chin or covered and just
Speaker 1: like laying there asleep.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's jarring, isn't it because it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look Yeah, is everyone in this house a vampire?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are they all little? Like what's wrong with them? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem. But yeah, I'm like, I like
Speaker 2: nobody's yeah I got like the covers thrown off because
Speaker 2: they're hot. Nobody's got like the body pillow.
Speaker 1: Or yeah's drooling. Yeah I look like a large mouthed
Speaker 1: bass when I sleep. I don't look cute at all,
Speaker 1: So I don't Everyone looks really nice for sleeping.
Speaker 2: Very nice. So stephan Michelle tiptoe into the room so
Speaker 2: they don't wake them up. Michelle remarks daddy sleeps loud,
Speaker 2: and Steph shushes her and instructs Michelle to get on
Speaker 2: one side of the bed while she gets on the other.
Speaker 2: Stephan Michelle say good night to one another, and then
Speaker 2: Michelle loudly exclaims in Danny's face, good night, Daddy, which
Speaker 2: wakes him up. Danny turns on a light and asks
Speaker 2: Michelle why she's awake. Michelle innocently replies, my eyes are open.
Speaker 2: Steph enthusiastically greets her dad, and he turns to her,
Speaker 2: saying this has been happening a little too much lately.
Speaker 2: Stephanie knows that she can't sleep in her dad's room,
Speaker 2: but Steph tries to convince him that this time it
Speaker 2: wasn't her fault. She accuses Michelle of waking her up
Speaker 2: and dragging her in there. Michelle says she did not,
Speaker 2: and Steph counters did so, and the two go back
Speaker 2: and forth until Danny stops them. He tells them as
Speaker 2: a slumber party, so everybody needs to go to bed.
Speaker 2: He gives them both a kiss and turns out the light.
Speaker 2: Michelle tells her dad no more snoring, and Danny insists
Speaker 2: he does not snore. The two go back and forth,
Speaker 2: and Danny gets the last word before telling her it's
Speaker 2: time to go to bed. As they all snuggle in
Speaker 2: for bed, and Danny says do not, and steph answers,
Speaker 2: this time, do too. That's a that felt like an
Speaker 2: ad lib. I don't know if that was a scripted
Speaker 2: or if that was a little ad lib by you.
Speaker 1: It was, it was probably scripted, but again, like Bob
Speaker 1: and I just had such a funnyle relationship that it
Speaker 1: just was, you.
Speaker 2: Know, supernatural. Yeah, just to tease him a little bit
Speaker 2: at the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I have to say, like when Danny was like,
Speaker 1: this is happening a little too much, I was like,
Speaker 1: didn't you just have a pretty traumatic earthquake like two
Speaker 1: weeks ago? Are you that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sort of dense Danny that you don't think that maybe
Speaker 1: she might. I don't know. It just seemed like for
Speaker 1: a parent who's usually pretty aware of his kids like
Speaker 1: to not kind of make that connection or to be
Speaker 1: like you can't do that. I don't know, it just
Speaker 1: seemed a little like insensitive.
Speaker 2: Maybe I think, yeah, I think, well, I think that's
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it had to set up for
Speaker 2: has to set up Danny for not knowing why stuff
Speaker 2: is being the way she is. Danny's not connecting this
Speaker 2: behavior to the earthquake. I think Danny's over the earthquake
Speaker 2: and so it's not connected.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not to again bring up the
Speaker 1: mom thing, but kids only a few years out from
Speaker 1: losing mom. I'm like the fact that she's not in
Speaker 1: Danny's room sleeping on floor every night, I mean, is surprising.
Speaker 1: So it was. I guess for me, I was a
Speaker 1: little bit like, I don't know. I feel like as
Speaker 1: a as a parent, you would that wouldn't be you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like, wow, this is so weird. Yeah, though,
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, again it's that she's not doing it,
Speaker 1: But I just feel like that would have probably been
Speaker 1: happening more often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree, I would. I think as moms,
Speaker 2: as moms in our forties especially, we were more attuned
Speaker 2: to our kids and why they're baby they are.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's also yeah, it's sort of like we I
Speaker 1: think maybe a mom thing and it's kind of part
Speaker 1: of the storyline, right, Danny is like, nothing's wrong I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it makes exactly it's it's setting up the
Speaker 2: later the later parts of the episode. So next in
Speaker 2: the kitchen the following morning, Kimmi tells DJ to hurry
Speaker 2: up or she's going to miss the bus. DJ walks
Speaker 2: down the stairs with her hair covering the entirety of
Speaker 2: her face. She puts sunglasses on over the hair as
Speaker 2: well to make it looks like she has eyes.
Speaker 1: She looks like cousin it. She totally looks like cause.
Speaker 2: And she had the hair to do that.
Speaker 1: Man, that was right.
Speaker 2: But not a wig. That was all okay.
Speaker 1: If I tried to do that, it would just be bangs,
Speaker 1: like it would just be like hey, yeah, No.
Speaker 2: She had enough hair to cover most of her body too.
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. So DJ asks Kimmy where she is,
Speaker 2: and Kimmy tells her to follow the sound of her voice.
Speaker 2: DJ slowly stumbles around the kitchen and Joey stops her.
Speaker 2: Hold it, Benji, Benji.
Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, a little side story,
Speaker 1: it was a movie about a straight dog named Benji.
Speaker 1: And there was a whole series of movies and let
Speaker 1: me tell you, I used to cry every time I
Speaker 1: watch Benji. I can still remember it to this day.
Speaker 2: I yep, loved those movies. Well yeah, any movies with
Speaker 2: dogs like.
Speaker 1: Street Dog Benji, Oh my god, yeah, I love that
Speaker 1: stupid dog. Anyway.
Speaker 2: He lifts up her hair to assess the damage and
Speaker 2: assures her that the pimple is not that bad. DJ
Speaker 2: fixes her hair and says she cannot be missus Claws
Speaker 2: like this. She's six hundred and twelve years old. Her
Speaker 2: face would have cleared up by now. Jesse tries to
Speaker 2: solve the problem by putting a band aid over the pimple,
Speaker 2: and DJ asks why missus Claws would wear a band aid.
Speaker 2: Jesse jokes, just say that Jack Frost was nipping at
Speaker 2: your nose, and he breaks into hysterics. Kim me and
Speaker 2: Kimmy emotionally less responds, oh, oh, djationally less, that was
Speaker 2: Is that what I said? You say emotionally less?
Speaker 1: No, I like emotionally I did say emotionally less.
Speaker 2: Emotionally less, I say emotionally like right, emotionless? Oh it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be emotionless, Lee.
Speaker 1: There and.
Speaker 2: Less. I just invented a whole new word. Uh so,
Speaker 2: DJ sighs and puts her hair back over her face,
Speaker 2: telling Kimmy to lead her to the bus. I remember
Speaker 2: the storyline, but I don't remember it being part of
Speaker 2: this earthquake episode.
Speaker 1: And yeah I didn't either.
Speaker 2: I was like, I was kind of shocked. I was like,
Speaker 2: I kind of wish they had not done these two
Speaker 2: storylines together because the seriousness of the earthquake storyline compared
Speaker 2: or juxtaposed with this storyline, it's kind of giving. There's
Speaker 2: people dying, kim you know, like it's like, come on,
Speaker 2: there's people that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But also, uh, anything maybe would have been sort
Speaker 1: of when when compared to Steph going to therapy and
Speaker 1: the earthquake and all that, anything would have you couldn't
Speaker 1: really have two sort of heavy storylines, so one of
Speaker 1: them had to kind of be a fluff you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: sort of superfluous thing. I was just more surprised than
Speaker 1: it was Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they mentioned anyway, Christmas. This is the one time
Speaker 2: they mentioned Christmas is the Missus Claus costume.
Speaker 1: But it was more so the fact that this family decorate.
Speaker 1: It's for every freaking holiday. Yeah, Like it's like they're
Speaker 1: owned by the Disney Corporation. Okay, this family as a
Speaker 1: rental space for trees and thing and not a there
Speaker 1: was two little wreaths that was actually that was my Everywhere.
Speaker 2: You look, oh yeah, there's nary naria Christmas tree sign.
Speaker 1: Not a stocking hung by the chimney with care in
Speaker 1: hopes that Saint Nicholas soon will beat here. Nothing.
Speaker 2: No, no chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
Speaker 1: No, no sugar plums dancing in their heads.
Speaker 2: None that this is This is a fail. Danny has
Speaker 2: failed in this episode multiple ways. Wow, by not decorating
Speaker 2: for Christmas.
Speaker 1: First the earthquake. Now no Christmas. I mean, although I
Speaker 1: guess if you were again, that would be weird. You're
Speaker 1: like the Christmas tree and an earthquake, like you can't
Speaker 1: so you cried. I got it.
Speaker 2: So they haven't decorated yet because they're still repairing the
Speaker 2: cracks from the earthquake.
Speaker 1: That's the well the storage facility was heavily damaged all
Speaker 1: of their current decorations. They're just gonna have to replace
Speaker 1: him with all of the money that they have for
Speaker 1: their decorating budget.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad we figured this out.
Speaker 1: Me too, This is critical.
Speaker 2: Danny and Steph walk into the kitchen and stuff announces
Speaker 2: that she and Danny are having the best morning. Danny agrees,
Speaker 2: so Steph offers, let's keep the fun going. I'll go
Speaker 2: to work with you. Danny shuts this idea down, reminding
Speaker 2: stuff that she has to go to school. Stephanie tries
Speaker 2: to butter him up, calling him the smartest person in
Speaker 2: the whole world. Danny takes this compliment, but he tells
Speaker 2: her that there must be someone smarter than him. Maybe
Speaker 2: in Japan. Joey and Jesse give him a sarcastick no.
Speaker 2: In Unison. Danny promises Steph that they will have fun
Speaker 2: together when he gets home. Steph nods and gives him
Speaker 2: a big hug, saying that she can't wait. And I
Speaker 2: noticed that Danny's drinking out of a blue mug, which
Speaker 2: is the exact same color as the couch and the curtains.
Speaker 1: Like they have this well, the plates and the plates
Speaker 1: I too. The place mats are.
Speaker 2: Blue plaid, and his comforter in his room is blue plaid.
Speaker 2: Blue plaid. This was I mean.
Speaker 1: Talking about well, it's sort of blue Gingham.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they went they went hard on this blue
Speaker 2: plaid theme.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So before walking away to get her things, she offers
Speaker 2: Danny to come to school with her, pointing out that
Speaker 2: it's Macaroni's Surprise day after Steff's gone. Joey points out
Speaker 2: that she's been really clingy to Danny lately. He asks
Speaker 2: what's going on with her. Danny insists that nothing's going
Speaker 2: on with her. He asks, what's wrong with a daughter
Speaker 2: adoring her father?
Speaker 1: You heard her, he.
Speaker 2: Says, she thinks I'm the smartest, most handsome dad in
Speaker 2: the universe. Jesse furrows his brow, telling him she never
Speaker 2: said anything about handsome, and Danny smirks, telling them it
Speaker 2: goes without saying.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to say that it is. It's
Speaker 1: kind of funny because we do this is something that
Speaker 1: we've seen happen with Danny a couple of times where
Speaker 1: like something's wrong or like with the Michelle thing where
Speaker 1: he was giving her and you know, letting her do
Speaker 1: stuff or whatever it was. I forget and Jess and
Speaker 1: joe were like, you can't. You know, it's interesting that
Speaker 1: we kind of pick up on Danny's blind spots as
Speaker 1: a parent, which we all have as parents, of those
Speaker 1: things that were like no, no, no, no, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But I like when they do that. But it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a consistant thing where, you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I think also he enjoys the the snugliness and the
Speaker 1: cuddling of his kids, and you know that's something that
Speaker 1: most parents enjoy. And so when their kid, you know,
Speaker 1: is giving them that attention, they're like, no, they're fine,
Speaker 1: they just want some extra snuggles. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: an interesting sort of thing that has recurred a couple
Speaker 1: times with Danny, where he doesn't quite always see the
Speaker 1: big picture.
Speaker 2: Well, it makes him more of a real character. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: exactly this. We don't want to see him be the
Speaker 2: per perfect dad, even though he is like America's dad.
Speaker 2: It's good to see the flaws too, and that Danny
Speaker 2: needs help. He really does need help from these two
Speaker 2: knuckleheads that live with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So a little while later, in the living room, Steph
Speaker 2: peeks out the front door, looking around frantically. She yells
Speaker 2: Uncle Jesse, Joey, where's daddy. Jesse shrugs, telling her he's
Speaker 2: probably just stuck in traffic. She nervously reminds them that
Speaker 2: they don't know that for sure. Joey grabs her hand
Speaker 2: and tells her that while they wait for Danny, they
Speaker 2: can watch The Wizard of Oz. Jesse chimes in, saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: you love those munchkins. Joey bends down and begins to
Speaker 2: sing the Lollipop Guild while doing a munchkin impression, but
Speaker 2: Steph is unenthusiastic. Just then, Danny walks in, and Steph
Speaker 2: immediately runs up to him, telling him how much she
Speaker 2: missed him. As he picks her up and gives her
Speaker 2: a big hug, Danny tells her he was stuck in traffic.
Speaker 2: He tries to set Stephanie down, but she won't let
Speaker 2: go of him. Rasiastically tells him that they should play
Speaker 2: pickup sticks. Danny admits that he'd love to, but it'll
Speaker 2: have to wait until tomorrow. He tries to set her
Speaker 2: down again, but she won't let go. Danny explains that
Speaker 2: he has dinner plans tonight, and finally Steph releases him.
Speaker 2: She offers to go with him to dinner, asking what
Speaker 2: dress she should wear. He tells her it's a business
Speaker 2: dinner for grown ups only, so she can't come. Steph
Speaker 2: chases after him, screaming, Daddy, you can't go. Joey and
Speaker 2: Jesse try to calm her down, reminding her that they'll
Speaker 2: be home and they can play with her, but Stephanie screams, no,
Speaker 2: I want my daddy. She holds onto Danny tightly, begging
Speaker 2: him not to leave her. Danny bends down and hugs Steph.
Speaker 2: He tells her he won't go, assuring her that everything
Speaker 2: will be all right. The scene step this scene like
Speaker 2: you and Bob, just to hit all of the right
Speaker 2: emotional notes. I can feel your panic, like, I can
Speaker 2: feel your clinginess, like it's really felt desperate. It's not
Speaker 2: just some kids wanting to hang out with dad. No,
Speaker 2: You're like there's trauma. There's trauma here, and I could
Speaker 2: see it in your performance. It was very very well done.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: We cut to an emotional commercial break, and when we come.
Speaker 1: Back, we are in unemotionally less emotionally less.
Speaker 2: New word. We're in Danny's room. Steph, Michelle, and Danny
Speaker 2: are playing together when Stuph proudly declares that she wins again.
Speaker 2: She's holding a long chain of monkeys while telling them
Speaker 2: playing a barrel of monkeys is more fun than playing
Speaker 2: with a barrel of Oh I bet that's where they
Speaker 2: got the name. Michelle shouts my turn, and Danny begins
Speaker 2: to tell her how to play. He explains that the
Speaker 2: first thing you do is shake it up. Michelle stands
Speaker 2: and starts shaking her booty again. Danny hands are the
Speaker 2: barrel and jokes, well, as long as you're shaking, hold this.
Speaker 2: Then they tell Michelle to dump the monkeys on the floor.
Speaker 2: Steph explains that now she has to try to pick
Speaker 2: all the monkeys up. Michelle gives her thumbs up, got it, dude.
Speaker 2: She picks the monkeys up, places them all in her
Speaker 2: lap and admits that this is a very easy game.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no specifics given. She did well,
Speaker 1: she was told she was like take them all up? Great? Done?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure. Steph complains to her dad that Michelle is
Speaker 2: turning the barrel of monkeys into a very silly game.
Speaker 2: Danny uses his opportunity to pull Stephanie aside for a
Speaker 2: conversation just the two of them. They sit on his
Speaker 2: bed and Steph starts off with a joke, how do
Speaker 2: you know an elephant has been in your refrigerator by
Speaker 2: the footprints and the butter? And you do a lovely
Speaker 2: fake laugh here right, very philistilla of man. Danny tells
Speaker 2: a joke next, What's Purple and lives in the Ocean
Speaker 2: Moby Grape. Danny laughs, but Steph doesn't get it. Danny
Speaker 2: turns to still.
Speaker 1: Feel that way, Kennedy.
Speaker 2: I know he's he's referring to think it's movie dick,
Speaker 2: But why great? I don't I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: I think I don't think it. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think it was supposed to be funny.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then the joke, the joke works. The joke
Speaker 2: didn't work, and work didn't work, and as it was
Speaker 2: supposed to. So. Danny turns to Steph and asks, how
Speaker 2: come you were so upset when I told you I
Speaker 2: was going out to dinner. She says it's simply because
Speaker 2: she wants to be with him. Danny's noticed that lately
Speaker 2: she's been clinging to his side all the time, and
Speaker 2: he wants to know what's bothering her so he can
Speaker 2: make her feel better. Steph responds in a chiper tone,
Speaker 2: I feel fine. Danny tells her.
Speaker 1: Everything's great. I'm fine, Everything's fine, Okay, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Danny says, well, then I guess you won't be sleeping
Speaker 2: in my room anymore. She pauses before asking if he's
Speaker 2: mad at her. Danny starts to get frustrated as he
Speaker 2: tells Steph he's not mad at her, he just needs
Speaker 2: to know what's bothering her. Steph gets upset as her
Speaker 2: voice raises, nothing is bothering me. She brushes this conversation aside,
Speaker 2: asking her dad to play Barrel of Monkeys again. Steph
Speaker 2: walks over to Michelle, who says the monkeys are sleeping.
Speaker 2: Steph leans down to the barrel and says good night
Speaker 2: to the monkeys. Well, Danny watches Stephanie with a worry. Ooh,
Speaker 2: there's definitely something going on, and Danny is finally catching on.
Speaker 1: Is it? So? I had this moment when we were
Speaker 1: watching them play Barrel of Monkeys and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you have to first, you have to shake it. And I,
Speaker 1: for a brief split second, thought maybe they would turn
Speaker 1: that into something where Steph would about shaking.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, yeah, I didn't make.
Speaker 1: That that would be, but I guess that would have
Speaker 1: been a little too on the nose, and then Danny
Speaker 1: kind would have figured it out. We wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's okay, Yeah, no, that was I didn't
Speaker 2: think about that reconnection, Oh, thinking, is this going to
Speaker 2: be the trigger for Stephanie? But it ends up being
Speaker 2: just the barrel of monkeys. That's it. So next in
Speaker 2: the kitchen, Jesse is tending to a large pot and
Speaker 2: walks away for a moment. Joey swoops in to have
Speaker 2: a taste and exclaims this soup has no taste. Jesse
Speaker 2: gives him a blank stare before telling him he's boiling water.
Speaker 2: Joey takes another sip and admits, in that case, it's delicious.
Speaker 2: DJ walks into the kitchen with a smile. Her hair
Speaker 2: is no longer covering her face. When asked how the
Speaker 2: play was, she admits it was fun, but the great
Speaker 2: news is everybody has zits. She tells the story about
Speaker 2: how she went into the bathroom to see if she
Speaker 2: could still stop traffic with her nose, and there were
Speaker 2: ten other girls checking out their zits too. She asked
Speaker 2: the girls, Hey, anyone want to play Connect the dots,
Speaker 2: and DJ recounts how it made all of the girls laugh.
Speaker 2: DJ realizes that having zits isn't such a big deal,
Speaker 2: just as long as their faces don't clear up before hers.
Speaker 2: She leaves and Jesse has a smug grin on his face.
Speaker 2: He proudly says Joey, we did it again, and Joey
Speaker 2: reminds him that they didn't do anything very true.
Speaker 1: I was, I was. That was a pretty quick resolution
Speaker 1: to that storyline. But again, it was kind of the
Speaker 1: focus had to be on and I think really DJ
Speaker 1: was just the device for driving home that it was
Speaker 1: Christmas time.
Speaker 2: That might have been the sole purpose.
Speaker 1: That was literally they were like, are we gonna I
Speaker 1: don't know if missus claus costume, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I wish they had saved it for a different episode,
Speaker 2: because ye, to a teenager having your first as it
Speaker 2: is is a ba's very embarrassing. But it was just
Speaker 2: sort of trivialized in the context of this.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I would know of any middle
Speaker 1: schoolers that would be like joking about their zits together
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe now, but especially not back then.
Speaker 2: It was not in junior. I know that was nobody.
Speaker 1: Now as an adult, yeah, I mean, as an adult,
Speaker 1: I have one joining us for the podcast, our third
Speaker 1: co host.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we can joke about it now, But
Speaker 2: in seventh grade that is oh my god, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: no way. So Danny walks in. He tells the guys
Speaker 2: that Stephanie won't tell him what's wrong with her, and
Speaker 2: he's tried everything to get through to her. Joey insists
Speaker 2: that he not be so hard on himself, but Danny
Speaker 2: tells them he has a trophy in his bedroom that
Speaker 2: says World's Greatest Dad, and he'd like to deserve it.
Speaker 2: Jesse reminds him that not every dad knows every answer
Speaker 2: to every problem, and Joey offers the idea that maybe
Speaker 2: they need some help with this. Danny asks, what do
Speaker 2: you mean, like take her to a therapist or something,
Speaker 2: and Joey shrugs, yeah, why not. Danny gets up from
Speaker 2: the table, assuring him that it's not that serious. Joey
Speaker 2: tries to reason with him, but Danny cuts him off.
Speaker 2: She has these times where she needs me, and then
Speaker 2: we spend some time together and then things are calm again.
Speaker 2: Jesse chimes in, after what happened today? Whatever Stephanie's problem is,
Speaker 2: it's not going away. It's getting worse. Danny asks, what
Speaker 2: do you want me to do? Take Stephanie to some
Speaker 2: stranger and admit that I can't handle my kids problems.
Speaker 2: Jesse responds, No, I want you to say that you
Speaker 2: love Stephanie so much that you would do anything to
Speaker 2: help her.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I liked that this was a struggle because in
Speaker 1: a house with three dads and three men, not to
Speaker 1: you know, generalize, but I do think they probably would
Speaker 1: have been a little bit less emotionally connected or in tune.
Speaker 1: And particularly I think a lot of you know, therapy
Speaker 1: is seen as like something's you know wrong, like there
Speaker 1: you need to be fixed. And that was kind of
Speaker 1: need to be fixed, the mentality that Danny had and
Speaker 1: I and you know, watching it now, you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, why would you think that way? Like that's
Speaker 1: not but it was. But it's so important because that
Speaker 1: is how so many people view it. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I really liked that, you know, they showed Danny
Speaker 1: kind of have this transformation and that he was like, well,
Speaker 1: nothing's wrong, We're fine. You know, I can do this
Speaker 1: a little bit of insight into you know, sometimes why
Speaker 1: parents are a little bit resistant. It's not that they
Speaker 1: don't want their kid to get help, it's that they
Speaker 1: want to they're the parent, they I should be the
Speaker 1: one that solves all of this.
Speaker 2: And yeah, a lot of people think they know their
Speaker 2: kids better than any any professional out there. And yeah,
Speaker 2: this is such an important conversation and I love that
Speaker 2: it comes from Jesse and Joey right too, who were like,
Speaker 2: they're kind of the knuckleheads and don't.
Speaker 1: Diaper baby soup water, you know what I mean? I mean,
Speaker 1: And now he's like, you should take her to therapy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 2: It showed two very different viewpoints about hey, it's okay
Speaker 2: to it's okay to ask for some help. And then
Speaker 2: there's Danny who's just like, no, no, I don't want
Speaker 2: to admit failure, but he's not a failure. There's some
Speaker 2: things that he can't solve and this is one of them,
Speaker 2: and so he needs some outside help.
Speaker 1: This is also giving me great encouragement that maybe Jesse
Speaker 1: will go to therapy someday, because obviously not.
Speaker 2: Opposed to it.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's the door, it's I have some hope.
Speaker 2: It's getting better. Yes, it's getting better. So Danny sighs
Speaker 2: he's gonna call her pediatrician and see who he recommends.
Speaker 2: Joey tells him he's a great dad, and Danny acknowledges
Speaker 2: that they make pretty great dads too. I love this
Speaker 2: part too, about because a lot of people are like, well,
Speaker 2: how do I find a therapist. It's not like you
Speaker 2: just open up a phone book, you know, call her
Speaker 2: pediatrician like that. That's how I found my therapy. Off
Speaker 2: to your pediatrician, but through my obig yn.
Speaker 1: That's the point.
Speaker 2: That's how the therapist I still see now fifteen years
Speaker 2: later is you know, that's a great, great place to start,
Speaker 2: and so I'm glad they threw that in there. Jesse
Speaker 2: gets into dad mode, telling Danny to go make his
Speaker 2: phone call, clean up for dinner, and wash under those nails.
Speaker 2: Danny nods yes, sir and begins to walk off. Joey
Speaker 2: gets in on the act and son, he signals for
Speaker 2: Danny to come back. I know about those magazines under
Speaker 2: your bed. Okay, but yeah, other than this weird off
Speaker 2: color joke at the end, was a really great so ending.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but now to the therapist's office, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, so now the best scene in my opinion, we're
Speaker 2: in the therapist's office. Stephan Danny walk into a children's
Speaker 2: therapy room filled with bright colors and games. Another mom
Speaker 2: and little girl are there, getting ready to leave. Steph
Speaker 2: greets the young girl and asks how it is there.
Speaker 2: The girl admits that it's pretty fun and the best
Speaker 2: part is you get to miss school. The therapist walks
Speaker 2: back into the room and introduces herself as Marion Steiner.
Speaker 2: Danny introduces himself and Stephanie. Marian tells Stephanie that they're
Speaker 2: going to have a great time. She has all kinds
Speaker 2: of toys. Steph asks if she has the Nintendo Game
Speaker 2: Boy with Super Mario.
Speaker 1: Others Classic and this is not color Super Mario Brothers. Guys.
Speaker 1: This was This was a greenish gray sort of screen
Speaker 1: with little pixels and and it was the top of
Speaker 1: the line. It was the newest, coolest thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was the bomb, right, This was advanced technology.
Speaker 1: And yeah, basically was like like a Tamagotchi in a
Speaker 1: bigger case, you know what I mean. Like that was
Speaker 1: the extent of it. It was just.
Speaker 2: So cool. Yep, yep, I love it. Marian admits that
Speaker 2: she does not have a Super Mario Brothers, but she'll
Speaker 2: add it to her shopping list. She then asks Stephanie
Speaker 2: to draw a picture of her family. Steph says she's
Speaker 2: in luck because family and birds are her two best things.
Speaker 2: Marian points out to Danny that he has a very
Speaker 2: verbal daughter. Danny laughs, telling the doctor where they got there,
Speaker 2: He goes on and on and on art imitates life
Speaker 2: right now. Huh uh. So Danny goes on and on
Speaker 2: about how much she likes to babble, concluding that he
Speaker 2: has no idea where she gets it from. Marian gives
Speaker 2: a small laugh and asks Danny to sit down. He
Speaker 2: tells her you probably haven't noticed, but I'm a little nervous,
Speaker 2: and he dabs his sweaty head with a handkerchief. Marian nods,
Speaker 2: I noticed. Danny explains, this is the first time Stephanie
Speaker 2: hasn't been able to tell me what's bothering her. Marian
Speaker 2: tells him that steph may not even be aware herself.
Speaker 2: We don't always know why we do the things we do.
Speaker 2: Sot on observation. Oh my, even it doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: years older, you're forty eight. Yeah, you just sometimes you
Speaker 2: don't know why you're acting the way you act. Danny
Speaker 2: is cleaning off the therapist's table with the handkerchief as
Speaker 2: she says this, so she uses it as an example.
Speaker 2: For instance, do you know why you're dusting my table.
Speaker 2: Danny lets out a nervous laugh, telling her he loves
Speaker 2: to dust. Then he asks her if something's wrong with that,
Speaker 2: and she questions.
Speaker 1: Question, though, wasn't Wasn't he just n he's having his
Speaker 1: sweaty brow with this and now he's wipe it all
Speaker 1: over her table. That's disgusting, Okay, And again, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess he must be nervous, because that feels like
Speaker 1: something Danny would never do. Is be like sweat sweat,
Speaker 1: sweat table table, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Danny would have a backup handkerchief and.
Speaker 1: Candkerchief. And then that that's that's too separate. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's got a cleaning one in one pocket and then
Speaker 1: a dad in the other.
Speaker 2: He's just so nervous, and really that is handif that.
Speaker 1: Just tells uh, you know, rattled Danny is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very rattled. So Danny tells her that when
Speaker 2: he was growing up, all the other kids wanted to
Speaker 2: be astronauts or fireman, and he wanted to be a maid.
Speaker 2: We quickly cut to Stephanie, who exclaims that she's done coloring.
Speaker 2: She's just glossying over that maid comment.
Speaker 1: Apparently, well, Danny, Danny will get to his therapy later.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot to unpack there.
Speaker 2: Yet, I hope. So, yeah, there is so much to
Speaker 2: impact there. So maryann it myers Stephanie's artwork. She asks
Speaker 2: steph to explain who all the people are in her drawing.
Speaker 2: Stuff begins to point to each person, explaining who they are,
Speaker 2: and she adds little traits about each member of the family,
Speaker 2: like Joey's pop Eye impressions and Jesse's love for Elvis.
Speaker 1: So one thing I learned is I should never do
Speaker 1: a Popeye impression. Oh yeah, you did. It was cute.
Speaker 2: It was cute.
Speaker 1: I looked like I was having some sort of a
Speaker 1: medical emergency.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't gonna say anything because you're so old.
Speaker 1: I wrote it down literally, was like, what's happening to
Speaker 1: my face? Yeah, I said, I look like and having
Speaker 1: it a medical problem.
Speaker 2: You contorting your mouth into a shape I've never seen.
Speaker 2: I see you're a flipper like you had a couple
Speaker 2: of flippers in there too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is just so bad, so bad. What is this?
Speaker 1: Oh God, God's happening.
Speaker 2: I still don't know how to do it. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: gloss over that. So when stuff and he gets to DJ.
Speaker 2: Marian questions what the red dot is on that drawing.
Speaker 2: Steph explains, that's her news.
Speaker 1: It like a pet.
Speaker 2: Marian points to a squiggly line that Steph drew on
Speaker 2: the house and asks what it is. Steph tells her
Speaker 2: it's a crack in the wall from the earthquake, and
Speaker 2: Marian asks who is the man standing outside of the house.
Speaker 2: Steph says, that's my daddy. The therapist asks why isn't
Speaker 2: he inside with the rest of the family. Steph tells
Speaker 2: her it's because he was late the day of the earthquake.
Speaker 2: They didn't know where he was for three hours and
Speaker 2: it made her feel terrible. Stephanie walks over to Danny,
Speaker 2: recalling that she didn't know where he was or what happened.
Speaker 2: He should have been with her. She was so scared
Speaker 2: she'd never see him again. Marian inquires, so you were
Speaker 2: scared after the earthquake because you didn't know where your
Speaker 2: daddy was. Steph nods, and Marian continues, so do you
Speaker 2: think the reason you want to be with your daddy
Speaker 2: all the time is so you'll always know where he is.
Speaker 2: Steph responds, yeah, what if there's another earthquake. She tries
Speaker 2: not to think about another earthquake happening, but people are
Speaker 2: always talking about it, and it's on TV, and there
Speaker 2: are all those garbage trucks that feel like little earthquakes.
Speaker 2: Marian explains that when it comes to earthquakes, the best
Speaker 2: thing we can do is be prepared, and Danny assures
Speaker 2: his daughter that they are prepared. They have their water,
Speaker 2: their food, batteries and everything else that they talked about.
Speaker 2: Stephanie knows this, but she still worries about her dad.
Speaker 2: Marian has an idea. She tells Steph to write a
Speaker 2: list of things she can do so she won't worry
Speaker 2: when her dad is away. For example, her dad can
Speaker 2: call her when he knows he's going to be late.
Speaker 2: Stephanie likes that idea, she asks Marian, what else you got.
Speaker 2: Marian suggests that if Steph is still scared, she can
Speaker 2: spend a few more nights in her dad's room, but
Speaker 2: in a sleeping bag on the floor. Steph nods in agreement.
Speaker 2: Then she asks the most important question, what can we
Speaker 2: do about those garbage trucks? What a racket? Danny smiles,
Speaker 2: telling stuff he'll call their counselmen in the morning. Oh, Jodie,
Speaker 2: you're so good in this scene. Like I have to
Speaker 2: remind myself that you're only like seven or eight in
Speaker 2: this episode and thank you just have so much depth
Speaker 2: to you as a person.
Speaker 1: See, I was so critical of myself like watching it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no, I mean I was like, oh, that's cute
Speaker 1: to get, you know, but I guess for like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was just was like, oh, I could
Speaker 1: have done more. I could have done this, but you
Speaker 1: know I was seven again.
Speaker 2: Well I thought I thought it was brilliant. And I'm
Speaker 2: not just saying that because because you're hearing.
Speaker 1: But I will say I liked that that the way
Speaker 1: it came about was sort of, you know, asking these
Speaker 1: questions to draw stuff out. It wasn't you know, And
Speaker 1: that you find that kids will tell you things indirectly
Speaker 1: about what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that too. The therapist didn't tell her, oh,
Speaker 2: this is what's wrong with you. She really lets Stephanie
Speaker 2: come to that conclusion on her own. But yeah, just
Speaker 2: such heavy stuff you had to deal with in this episode.
Speaker 2: And I wondered if, as a child actor, how you
Speaker 2: tap into those emotions because you haven't lived a whole
Speaker 2: lot of life yet, and so where were you directed
Speaker 2: this way or did Janice go.
Speaker 1: Into it with you or did you My mom definitely
Speaker 1: went through it with me. I mean, you know, running
Speaker 1: lines in the car and stuff, and but no, I
Speaker 1: think it was you know, earthquakes were scary and it
Speaker 1: was I. I don't I think tapping into that was
Speaker 1: pretty normal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know it was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think it was just kind of something
Speaker 1: that I was like, yeah, I can see why this
Speaker 1: would be scary.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I I as when I was on days
Speaker 2: of our lives, I had to do a lot of
Speaker 2: emotional scenes because I was always right, My father was
Speaker 2: always dying or getting.
Speaker 1: Brain getting right, father was always dying, father.
Speaker 2: Coming back as a different character. So I had all
Speaker 2: these emotional scenes and I was trying to remember how
Speaker 2: did I do that? Because yeah, it at six or seven,
Speaker 2: you don't have those life experiences. But I think I was.
Speaker 2: I think we're empathetic people, and so we can place
Speaker 2: ourselves in that position of like a child traumatized by
Speaker 2: an earthquake and right possibly.
Speaker 1: Losing another thing sad, something scary, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I think that's how I think that's
Speaker 2: how we did it as children. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm living it up, but that's.
Speaker 1: How it really was, you know, just sort of like
Speaker 1: tapping into what that would really feel like. I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very very relatable and I'm sure that helped
Speaker 2: a lot of kids for sure.
Speaker 1: And I love that Steph like, you know, again, she
Speaker 1: goes to therapy and she does all this stuff, but
Speaker 1: like she still has her little Steph spunk to her,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I appreciate that. You know,
Speaker 1: you see her going Okay, solution, solution, I like this,
Speaker 1: and okay, the gardens strucks, why do we do it?
Speaker 1: You know, like, but very Steph like you know that
Speaker 1: she's willing to take the action. And yeah, I just
Speaker 1: what a great kid.
Speaker 2: Like I just love I love Stephanie so much, Like
Speaker 2: she just rocks.
Speaker 1: And she was a she was a pretty rare little
Speaker 1: character and really was. Yeah. I loved that we got
Speaker 1: to tell this story though, about how important therapy and
Speaker 1: working through trauma and all that kind of stuff is.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, oh yeah, it was. It was very good.
Speaker 2: Uh So the last scene we're in stephan DJ's room.
Speaker 2: The whole family is gathered around stuph to tuck her
Speaker 2: into bed. Danny reminds her that there's a sleeping bag
Speaker 2: in his room if she wants it. She asks if
Speaker 2: he still snores, and Danny says yes. She decides she'll
Speaker 2: stay in her own room. Then Jesse tells Steph that
Speaker 2: if she needs anything, he's right across the hall, and
Speaker 2: Joey tells her that he's downstairs, but he can be
Speaker 2: upstairs like that. Steph tells all of them that if
Speaker 2: they need her, she'll be right there. Danny gives her
Speaker 2: a kiss on the head and tells her how great
Speaker 2: she's doing. They all say good night to the girls
Speaker 2: and walk out. DJ says good night to her little
Speaker 2: sister and gets into bed. Steph asks for a favor.
Speaker 2: She needs DJ to untuck her a little because she
Speaker 2: can't move again, you're the vampire.
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's what it is. Maybe they're all like,
Speaker 1: they're all tucking each other in so tight that they
Speaker 1: can't sleep.
Speaker 2: These Tanners, Like what is happening?
Speaker 1: It's strange.
Speaker 2: They're over time.
Speaker 1: The weirdest part is who's tucking day? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like because he obviously sleeping the same way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's they're all just tucked in, snug as
Speaker 1: a bug.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. So DJ smiles as she gets out
Speaker 2: of bed to help. She untucks Stephanie and then kisses
Speaker 2: her on the cheek before saying goodnight. And that is
Speaker 2: our show. Wow. Then what an episode? Oh one of
Speaker 2: my top five. I mean, I like say this every season,
Speaker 2: but yeah, this has gotta be up there with the
Speaker 2: top five. It's just it's so well done, and especially
Speaker 2: for nineteen eighty nine, when therapy was not considered nearly
Speaker 2: as much as it is now. Yeah, I just thought
Speaker 2: that they hit all of the right notes, the beats,
Speaker 2: the points that they wanted to get, the message they
Speaker 2: wanted to get across, and I thought it was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, And in you know, a twenty two
Speaker 1: minute sitcom episode, we managed to address a pretty big,
Speaker 1: real issue and and you know, really talk to people
Speaker 1: about how to get help. I wonder if at the
Speaker 1: end of the episode it had one of those like
Speaker 1: if you your kidneys, help, call the National Mental Health
Speaker 1: hot Line, or if there even was one in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, But I wonder, you know, sure, I wonder
Speaker 1: if that.
Speaker 2: Was we did those at the end of like the
Speaker 2: abuse storyline that's to come right there were Yeah, they
Speaker 2: would put the hot line up there, and yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Just wonder, I mean, I wonder if that was I
Speaker 1: mean a mental health hotline in nineteen eighty nine. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was one, but but yeah, I just wonder.
Speaker 1: That was like at the end of the you know,
Speaker 1: very special episode.
Speaker 2: Of I Bet You're right. I Bet You're right. But no,
Speaker 2: it was an important conversation to have. Jeff did this brilliantly.
Speaker 1: We did such a great job with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did such a great job with this and
Speaker 2: some very important news we are going to hear from
Speaker 2: Jeff later this week. We interviewed him about this very
Speaker 2: episode to give us a behind the scenes look about
Speaker 2: what it was like writing this script in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 2: right after a major earthquake happened for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's really interesting. There's some really great insight
Speaker 1: in our interview with Jeff. It's so a great companion
Speaker 1: piece to watching this episode. And yeah, I learned a
Speaker 1: lot I did too, sort of the creation of the episode. Now,
Speaker 1: it was great and again, you know, our for being
Speaker 1: a fun family sitcom and you know something that you know,
Speaker 1: the critics thought was just sort of silly most of
Speaker 1: the time, and it was most of the time it
Speaker 1: was fun and silly. We did we did make an
Speaker 1: impact and we did, you know, talk about things that
Speaker 1: were important to families and kids and parents, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of that.
Speaker 2: I'm really proud too. And it's it's okay to not
Speaker 2: have all the answers too, Like I like that they
Speaker 2: showed Danny and his emotional journey through this as well,
Speaker 2: that you just you don't have to know, you don't
Speaker 2: have to be a parenting expert. You're not gonna have
Speaker 2: all the answers, so it's okay, Well it we go
Speaker 2: find someone who does.
Speaker 1: There was something in the episode for parents and kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The parents were going to
Speaker 1: walk away taking something entirely different from the show than
Speaker 1: maybe the key kids were, Yeah, about kind of who
Speaker 1: they related to. So yeah, I love that. That was
Speaker 1: a It was a great episode.
Speaker 2: It was good. My only critique and I'm going to
Speaker 2: change my mind live here on the podcast. Oh. I
Speaker 2: was initially disappointed that they didn't include a mention of
Speaker 2: Pam and how Stephanie lost her parents when Pam never
Speaker 2: came home, and then that triggered this emotional trauma to
Speaker 2: Danny not coming home. But you'll see when during our
Speaker 2: interview with Jeff, he touches on that and explains why
Speaker 2: that they didn't incat Pam. So I'm rescinding that critique
Speaker 2: and I'm glad that they wrote it exactly the way.
Speaker 1: They I mean, there's only so much trauma you can
Speaker 1: get into in that short sitcom episode so twenty two,
Speaker 1: And besides, we don't really ever talk about Pam anyway,
Speaker 1: we don't bring her up. It's not that important.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, I M sorry. I have to make jokes
Speaker 1: because we've been talking about a serious topic and I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do You're overdue for an inappropriate joke.
Speaker 1: I will say this show, too, had a really good
Speaker 1: balance of like jokes and it wasn't overly silly or
Speaker 1: like really funny funny, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: was like, there were cute little moments, but it was
Speaker 1: I thought the tone was really good. They managed to
Speaker 1: like be respectful of what the show was addressing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if Jesse had brought in his band and done
Speaker 2: a live concert at midnight that would have thrown off
Speaker 2: the antul the entire emotional tone.
Speaker 1: Right right, that's what what picked stuff up. And she's like,
Speaker 1: is there a you know, is there an earthquake? No,
Speaker 1: it's just Uncle Jesse and the retail rippers, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you need all that that was left on
Speaker 2: the cutting zone floor.
Speaker 1: Thank god, Yeah, we didn't go down that route. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you everybody for joining us for another episode of
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