Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, and barber Joe.
Speaker 2: You used to do that and your computer would like
Speaker 2: shoot balloons or something your head like.
Speaker 1: There used to be. I wonder it did an update,
Speaker 1: So I wonder if it does.
Speaker 2: If you guys could see what we're doing right now,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll make.
Speaker 3: It a clip.
Speaker 2: We are, like, we're just waving our arms frantically makes
Speaker 2: weird faces.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't it mind to get.
Speaker 2: Some sort of a reaction from uh, from our our.
Speaker 3: Just old jazz hands.
Speaker 2: I really, you guys need what we're actually doing to
Speaker 2: try and get a zoom reaction, because it was there
Speaker 2: were balloons that all sorts of stuff was happening, but
Speaker 2: not anymore.
Speaker 1: I guess, no, do it without trying, and now you
Speaker 1: would put.
Speaker 2: It off and now like yeah, it used to be like,
Speaker 2: oh if I do that, I can raise my hand.
Speaker 1: Did you raise your hand?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No? Oh yeah, well okay, anyways.
Speaker 3: Wow, we could do this forever, which is both.
Speaker 2: Sad and uh and I don't know it says something
Speaker 2: about us though.
Speaker 1: Manny just called us dorks, which is so accurate.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, this is watch just wave our arms around
Speaker 2: on a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of exercising, like getting my energy.
Speaker 3: You were like super and then I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I'll do it too.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh wait, things used to
Speaker 2: happen and now they don't. It doesn't like Zoom doesn't
Speaker 2: like this anymore. Even Zoom's tired of version. It was like, enough,
Speaker 2: I'm turning off his feature a point. Uh oh, so
Speaker 2: I have so I have an update on what what's
Speaker 2: your update? Well it's not really an update, it's just
Speaker 2: a story. But so, okay, do you remember I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever told you the story
Speaker 2: when we were coming up with the name for Beatrix
Speaker 2: and I said Beatrix to my mom, okay, and she
Speaker 2: had a bit of a freak out because she was
Speaker 2: like her response was what is going to be embroidered
Speaker 2: on her high school cheerleading uniform?
Speaker 3: Tricksy?
Speaker 2: Wait, that was Jannas's first Jana's first remark.
Speaker 3: That was what she was worried about.
Speaker 2: I believe she had suggested Lola and I was like,
Speaker 2: you mean the show.
Speaker 3: Girl, Like what do we do?
Speaker 2: No? So anyway, sorry, mom, I'm outing you here, lovely Jannis.
Speaker 3: It was such a Janis sweetened moment of like seventeen.
Speaker 2: Years in the future. But she is never gone by
Speaker 2: Tricksy ever. Ever, I've never heard that she has now
Speaker 2: decided to do start going by Tricksy.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: Shed you like Slipper A twenty or something like.
Speaker 3: No, my mom did not want her to go buy Trixie.
Speaker 2: It was horrified at the possibility of Tricksy.
Speaker 3: That was not a that was not like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: how cute.
Speaker 2: That was like's not set you're setting her up for failure.
Speaker 2: Oh no, And now she's decided and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: she's just never gonna go by that.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Well, she started a band with some friends and uh,
Speaker 2: and apparently she wants to go buy Tricksy in the
Speaker 2: band to plays bass Tricksy little bass player. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: back up Lenny Kravitz in he's still gonna be anyway.
Speaker 3: So she she sent.
Speaker 2: Out, uh, selling girls Scout cookies, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: but she posted her little like thing that, you know,
Speaker 2: the email blurb or whatever that gets sent out and
Speaker 2: it's like, help support Trixy's Girl Scout Cookies.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, my wait.
Speaker 2: I can't wait, I can't When she sees this in
Speaker 2: her email, and it's says, Tricksy, My mom's gonna lose it.
Speaker 1: She might think it's nice, like I told you, Yeah, yeah, Tricksy.
Speaker 1: Uh interesting, Okay. So and she's how old is she? Fourteen? Fifteen?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fourteen? Fourteen okay and a half yeah, fourteen
Speaker 1: and a half. So okay. So she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's this independence.
Speaker 3: She's like, I might go for it.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, but just the irony of the fact that
Speaker 2: the kid who had never done cheer or gone by
Speaker 2: the name Trixie is now doing both in high school,
Speaker 2: which is exactly what my mother prophesized.
Speaker 1: And now I'm afraid us knows everything, Like this is
Speaker 1: a lesson for you, dy, Janice knows everything else is?
Speaker 1: She said. I started thinking, I guess a're writing it
Speaker 1: down and then you're like, oh, in fifteen years, it'll
Speaker 1: come true. Yes, wow, well just yeah. So has she
Speaker 1: embroidered it on her cheer uniform yet though, no, because.
Speaker 2: They don't embroider their names on it. But she has
Speaker 2: be a trix on her cheer and they did.
Speaker 3: They won their first cheer petition.
Speaker 2: I got to spend all day at my first cheer competition. Oh,
Speaker 2: that was an experience I've never had before. Realized I
Speaker 2: didn't have nearly enough be dazzled. Oh nothing, I had nothing,
Speaker 2: I was I was, I was blank.
Speaker 1: You you just blended into the Bible.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I mean probably smart, given the
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like a few people kind
Speaker 2: of recognize.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, but.
Speaker 3: Everyone, I mean the amount of cheer.
Speaker 1: Cheer, glitter, jewels, lamb.
Speaker 2: And it was like it was like eight hours we
Speaker 2: were there. We got there at ten and I think
Speaker 2: we left at six.
Speaker 1: Oh that's intense.
Speaker 2: B and her JV team the first place in there
Speaker 2: thing and her high school took grand champions with the
Speaker 2: most amount of points and against like travel cheer teams
Speaker 2: and all the stuff.
Speaker 3: They killed it. That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: She was so excited, like and the girls were so
Speaker 2: they were also excited because there's a few of them
Speaker 2: that have never done cheer and really like they decided
Speaker 2: to do it like three weeks ago, so they really
Speaker 2: pulled it together.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, good for them. Oh how validating? And oh
Speaker 1: yeah it was great.
Speaker 2: And I you know, I'll be honest, have we not
Speaker 2: gotten anything? And I would have been there eight hours,
Speaker 2: would have been much a little bit more pissonic y.
Speaker 2: This was like, okay, okay, we got a flag, we
Speaker 2: got some things, we get there was you know, everyone's happy.
Speaker 1: We would have gone home hand what. Yeah, spectating is
Speaker 1: like an endurance sport. With that you have to have,
Speaker 1: like snacks, you have to.
Speaker 3: There was no and that. I didn't know. I didn't
Speaker 3: know who I came, snacklace, what I came. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be concessions there, there'll be food. There was downtown and lace.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, but the lines I bet were
Speaker 1: really long.
Speaker 2: There was just by the time I was like, oh
Speaker 2: I should go get a snack, it was done.
Speaker 1: There was nothing.
Speaker 2: It was gone, the chips, the sodas. But I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: then I had to go out in downtown. I was
Speaker 2: like where, okay, seven eleven. So then I show up
Speaker 2: with the seven eleven, which looks like an extension.
Speaker 1: Of the cheer competition.
Speaker 2: There's like fifty cheerleaders in there and just everyone in downtown.
Speaker 1: Like what is happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I realized that seven eleven actually makes pretty
Speaker 2: decent pizza.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Okay, Well, when you're that hungry.
Speaker 2: Watch I also would have eaten just about anything, but
Speaker 2: it was fresh out of the oven.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, substance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe my my opinion was a little bit excuse.
Speaker 1: Because probably, yeah, the hunger level, you're probably dehydrated. You
Speaker 1: have to like a camera for my back.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Okay, sitting on these little like metal bleachers, Oh those
Speaker 1: are the worst. Yeah, I had standing up for instance,
Speaker 1: iattica just from sitting on those for five years. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm too old for this, so just buckle up. It's
Speaker 1: only the beginning.
Speaker 3: Apparently there's going to be more. So you're Tricksie is.
Speaker 1: In it for the long run. I am yeah. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, she's so cute. She's so great kid. I
Speaker 1: love your kids.
Speaker 3: Was doing her little college tours this week.
Speaker 1: This is not this is not happening.
Speaker 3: Like you have like adult people in your house.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I know that's true, but it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: I use the adult very loosely, but well baby adult
Speaker 1: that's what we call you know. My well, Felicity is
Speaker 1: still a minor technically for a few more months, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's my baby. She's going to be eighteen, and oh
Speaker 1: I don't I am in denial. I am firmly in
Speaker 1: denial that she's going to be eighteen. She's still ten
Speaker 1: in my mind, you know, her mind too up in
Speaker 1: the features. They looked like sisters for a long time.
Speaker 3: Exactly like I just around the dress the other day.
Speaker 1: Yes, like that this she will forever be ten. They
Speaker 1: will both forever be ten. Yeah, in my mind, I
Speaker 1: just yeah, I can't believe they're grown up. So grown up.
Speaker 1: You have become the old people. We are this, We
Speaker 1: are those ladies that are complaining about were those metal benches?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Who have I become?
Speaker 1: Who have I become? You don't go do just about
Speaker 1: anything excepted on a metal bench. I embrobrace it. I
Speaker 1: embrace you know, bring it.
Speaker 3: On now I know.
Speaker 2: Now I'm like, oh, it's it was kind of like
Speaker 2: the introduction to being a soccer parent, where you're like,
Speaker 2: oh no, we got a break, Like there's wagons involved, and.
Speaker 1: There's where this is dedication, especially for the tournaments. So
Speaker 1: it dominates family life, or it can anyways during the camp.
Speaker 2: But now she had to quit cheer rehearsal because she
Speaker 2: is in the UH musical at her school.
Speaker 3: She's in Chicago.
Speaker 2: She's been having to balance both and kind of do
Speaker 2: that and now she's uh putting cheer on positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is good. You know, the grades
Speaker 1: were going as well as the extracurriculars. But it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's a balance.
Speaker 3: I get it, and I look at her and I go,
Speaker 3: you're this is the stuff you're going to need to know.
Speaker 1: Honestly, math math, you don't need it. Life skills though, yes,
Speaker 1: this is what right is what they need?
Speaker 3: You know, exercise your brain.
Speaker 2: But absolutely, speaking of exercising our brains, show we exercise
Speaker 2: our brains and recap a show.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a great segue. I'm very impressed. You get
Speaker 1: ten points for that segue. That was great.
Speaker 3: Well you're going to subtract those a little bit later
Speaker 3: when I see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, we have a lot to discuss today.
Speaker 1: This is an iconic episode, a very special episode. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Welcome back to How Rude Tanneritos.
Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Barber and I'm Jody Sweeten, who was taking
Speaker 1: a sip of coffee. Sorry about that mid swig, Jody Sweeten. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: look I gotta be cappy. Definitely. Today we're discussing season four,
Speaker 1: episode eight, Shape Up It originally aired in November ninth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety and it goes a little something like this.
Speaker 1: In light of Kimmy's upcoming pool party, DJ begins a
Speaker 1: crash diet and over exerts herself exercising. When Stephanie notices
Speaker 1: the problem, DJ swears her to secrecy, but the secret
Speaker 1: is out when DJ collapses during a family outing to
Speaker 1: the gym. This was directed by joel's Wick, written by
Speaker 1: Jeff Franklin. He loves to write these very special episodes.
Speaker 1: And we have several guest stars. This week we have
Speaker 1: Lisa Mililei as a girl in class, doesn't have a name,
Speaker 1: girl in class. She really made the whole episode. She
Speaker 1: did a ton of guest spots, a ton of guest spots.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you who this person is, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know which girl in the class she was.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but she's very accomplished. She's known for Bolden,
Speaker 1: the Beautiful One, Crazy Summer and Friends, so you know
Speaker 1: she's got credits to her name. Well, at least we
Speaker 1: didn't kill her career exactly. Went on to go do
Speaker 1: a few other things. That's the most important lesson here.
Speaker 1: Next we have Julie Simone as swimsuit model. Again nameless,
Speaker 1: but that's well, we only see her.
Speaker 3: In the pictures, right that are like posted.
Speaker 1: Up on them. No, I think she's so isn't she
Speaker 1: someone in the in the gym? Isn't she one of the.
Speaker 2: Ladies with the I think she's No, I think she's
Speaker 2: the model that is the the swimsuit model that DJ
Speaker 2: is posting up on the fridge because they'd have to
Speaker 2: use somebody because.
Speaker 1: You can't and she gets a credit.
Speaker 3: Photos, you'd have to. Yeah, she was a person.
Speaker 2: She was on the cover of the magazine when DJ
Speaker 2: holds it up, and then there were all those photos
Speaker 2: of her on the fridge.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, I'm trying to figure out, like who
Speaker 1: is she? Why is she?
Speaker 3: Is she?
Speaker 1: Okay, she's not in a bathing suit in the gym,
Speaker 1: so yeah she must.
Speaker 3: Be No, No, she is in a bathing suit.
Speaker 1: Well, she was underutilized in this episode because she is
Speaker 1: an impressive number of credits, Like the list is very long.
Speaker 1: She's a director, she's a writer. She directed and co
Speaker 1: wrote the documentary Fidland, which won over twenty awards across
Speaker 1: multiple film festivals. So yeah, she's very accomplished. She should
Speaker 1: have been given she should have been invited onto the
Speaker 1: show for sure, right and I don't know, given her
Speaker 1: at least a line or two. But yeah, no, good
Speaker 1: for her. Next, we have Brittain Taylor as aerobics instructor.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets names in this like, no, none of the
Speaker 1: guest stars get actual names for their characters.
Speaker 3: There were not that well, yeah, they don't need to
Speaker 3: know the name.
Speaker 1: It's too much information, the right what they do? Right?
Speaker 1: She appeared in Dallas Rescue nine one one Hill Street
Speaker 1: Blues and she was also a stunt woman at Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: Oh yep, good for her. Last, but certainly not least,
Speaker 1: we have Troy Zuklato as bodybuilder. He has exactly three
Speaker 1: credits on IMDb, Full House, Doogie Houser, MD, and Kill Point.
Speaker 1: You'll be shocked to learn that in all three of
Speaker 1: these he played a muscleman bodybuilder. Really, I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Doogie Howser would have been some sort of emotionally uh
Speaker 2: you know, acting revealings.
Speaker 1: But yeah, been wrong before. He's worked hard for those muscles.
Speaker 1: You know he is going to put them to good use,
Speaker 1: so something he's he's very lumpy according to Michelle's yeah,
Speaker 1: very lumberry lump beer. Okay, so we start with the teaser.
Speaker 1: In the kitchen, Jesse walks up to Michelle, who is
Speaker 1: sitting at the table in her pjs. He asks her,
Speaker 1: what cereal do you want your uncle Jesse to buy
Speaker 1: for breakfast. Michelle shouts, with extra excitement, fiber bears, and Jesse,
Speaker 1: fiber bear. I know, my colon, My colon is like constricting,
Speaker 1: just like thinking about this for a three.
Speaker 3: Year old or four year old.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody needs fiber, I guess.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, this is in no way saying that
Speaker 2: fiber is not an essential part of a well rounded
Speaker 2: food program. And that's something that you need and it
Speaker 2: helps your system.
Speaker 3: But I have never heard.
Speaker 1: Like a three or four year old kid yell out
Speaker 1: fiber bears with excitement, with exaggerated Maybe maybe like an
Speaker 1: eighty four year old person would be like fiber bears, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean, But I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would get that excited for fiber bears. I
Speaker 1: need more.
Speaker 2: Could basically be like like the little animal crackers, but
Speaker 2: fiber yeah, oh yeah no, there's no there's no such
Speaker 2: thing as too much fiber when you're when you get
Speaker 2: to our ri Yeah, well fiber bears, we'll get on that.
Speaker 2: Well that'll be our new uh, our new birch. No
Speaker 2: more fiber Bears box fiber bears.
Speaker 1: Or I like to know the boats not available? Like
Speaker 1: why I don't know why we went with fiber bears.
Speaker 1: I was kept waiting for a joke, you know, like
Speaker 1: a fart joke or.
Speaker 3: Something might while.
Speaker 1: Exact ye, so AnyWho, Jesse reveals that the cereal box
Speaker 1: that he was hiding behind his back is the fiber Bears.
Speaker 1: You got it, dude, Michelle grins, I'm glad I woke
Speaker 1: you up, and Jesse nods. If you hadn't come in
Speaker 1: and jumped on my stomach, I'd have missed the beautiful
Speaker 1: sunrise this morning. He leaves the box of cereal on
Speaker 1: the table while he goes to grabs milk. Michelle wastes
Speaker 1: no time. She pours the entire box into her bowl
Speaker 1: and all over the counter. All of the bears are
Speaker 1: now out of the bears so much so, many fibrous
Speaker 1: bears just all over the place. A whole lot of
Speaker 1: fiber and a whole lot of bear. She searches through
Speaker 1: the pile of bears to find the hidden prize inside.
Speaker 1: She exclaims it's party teddy while leaving her chair and
Speaker 1: running over to her uncle. Jesse questions what about breakfast,
Speaker 1: and she demands two eggs over easy, thank you, and
Speaker 1: she runs away while Jesse playfully chases after her. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a thing. That was Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was a teaser. Well, and then the bears, the fiber bears,
Speaker 1: they were like they looked like Teddy Grams, like those
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 3: They were chocolate. They were chocolate.
Speaker 1: Didn't even match the box of.
Speaker 2: Se No, they were that's they were chocolate Teddy Grams,
Speaker 2: which I'm pretty sure don't have your daily dose of fibrants.
Speaker 1: No, it's like the opposite of fiber. How can we
Speaker 1: how can we clog you up as quickly as right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 2: How can we fill you with some more preservatives? But
Speaker 2: they are delicious, so they're good. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: I can't knock it, you know.
Speaker 3: Not fibris.
Speaker 1: No, you know what, there's a there's there's a market
Speaker 1: there for him.
Speaker 3: There's a market or fiber.
Speaker 1: Bear fiber you know what.
Speaker 3: Let's get find it.
Speaker 1: Let's jump on this. Let's market these fiber bears. We
Speaker 1: can sell it in our mert shop. We can all
Speaker 1: have like healthier colons will clean them out. Let's just
Speaker 1: let's all do this together. Hey, it's middle age cheers
Speaker 1: to middle age Joe. He's like, all right, there's not
Speaker 1: even a retort for that.
Speaker 3: Well, because I look, there was a lot of retorts.
Speaker 1: In my head, and I was like, none of those
Speaker 1: are appropriate with We've already jumped the shark with the
Speaker 1: fibrous bears. So oh yeah, moving right along. In the
Speaker 1: girls room, DJ is eating some cookies while she rifles
Speaker 1: through magazines.
Speaker 3: I wonder how much fibers in this the fiber cookies.
Speaker 3: Fiber cook.
Speaker 1: Stephanie excitedly walks in showing DJ the recorder she received
Speaker 1: at school today.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, Yeah, I loved playing the recorder in
Speaker 2: my room.
Speaker 3: I loved it, of course you did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quarters were great. Is that still standard in like
Speaker 1: junior high? Do you still have I don't think it.
Speaker 3: Like my kids, elementary school was elementary.
Speaker 1: School for me, it was junior high. It was seventh grade.
Speaker 2: Kids brought one home, but they might have had I know,
Speaker 2: they had like music appreciation. Maybe I don't know. Before
Speaker 2: they you know, got that at schools, right right? I
Speaker 2: think they had a little bit. But yeah, oh I
Speaker 2: remember vividly playing my report and my mom does to
Speaker 2: poor Jane's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the recorder was great.
Speaker 2: Hot cross buns, man, all the hot cross buns all
Speaker 2: day long.
Speaker 1: That was hot. Yeah, that's great. God bless the recorder.
Speaker 1: Oh this is yeah, art imitates like you, what's a
Speaker 1: record anyway? I'm not gonna go off on a whole time. Please,
Speaker 1: this is what we do. This is what we do.
Speaker 3: Why is it called a recorder? It doesn't record anything.
Speaker 1: It doesn't record You're right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a terrible name. There's there's not a chord or
Speaker 2: a record. No, there's nothing. There's nothing involved. It is
Speaker 2: a wind instrument.
Speaker 1: No, you blow it and so yeah, it doesn't record
Speaker 1: any It's like it's related to the obo, to the
Speaker 1: to the flute. It it's a it's a wind instrument.
Speaker 1: So why yeah, yeah, it doesn't record anything. I think
Speaker 1: that I think the recorder should be renamed. I agree,
Speaker 1: let's start a move.
Speaker 2: I haven't thought of what it is yet, but it's
Speaker 2: going to be. It's like the like the mini flute
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: It's a flute light. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, flute light,
Speaker 1: flute light. Let's let's start a movement and rename the recorder.
Speaker 1: And all the kids these days are like, what do
Speaker 1: they talk about?
Speaker 2: We don't, And we can give out fiber bears along
Speaker 2: the recorders.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be a hit with the kids.
Speaker 1: We will revolutionize the elementary schools with our fiber bears.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say the elderly.
Speaker 1: Well, that will bring our elderly ways into the schools.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, youth. So Steph asks DJ if she has
Speaker 1: any requests, and DJ sarcastically answers yes, please don't play.
Speaker 1: Steph suggests on top of Old Smokey, you got it,
Speaker 1: and she starts to play the song but falls flat
Speaker 1: on a note. She tries again, and the sound screeches
Speaker 1: in DJ's ears. Stephanie explains that this is her homework
Speaker 1: for music appreciation, and DJ quips, well, when it happens
Speaker 1: to be music, I'll appreciate it. Good comeback. She asks
Speaker 1: her sister to practice somewhere else because she's in the
Speaker 1: middle of making a collage for Kimmy's birthday card. On cue,
Speaker 1: Jimmy walks in wearing the Unforgettable by Onesie.
Speaker 3: What Mermaid butts? Why why Mermaid butts?
Speaker 2: Damn?
Speaker 3: I literally was like, loved.
Speaker 1: It's back, Like I just wore this a few episodes.
Speaker 1: Look at the fan pack, I do not look at door.
Speaker 2: Very nice.
Speaker 3: But fanny packs are back.
Speaker 2: I mean they wear more like a crossbody now because
Speaker 2: you can't actually wear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, this was a big fanny pack, like Kimmy
Speaker 1: was so this was so nineties, This was so yeah
Speaker 1: oh man like that. You can tell just how much
Speaker 1: Roberta loved this outfit because she brought it back like
Speaker 1: a few episodes later.
Speaker 3: So great. Yeah, I still don't like it.
Speaker 1: I still don't like it anymore.
Speaker 3: Than I did backup. I love it. I love it,
Speaker 3: but I get it.
Speaker 1: They had to have me in something form fitting to
Speaker 1: kind of accentuate my thin frame for this storyline. So
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, wear this again, And I was like,
Speaker 1: I hated it, hated it, hated it, but whatever. Moving along,
Speaker 1: moving along with the Mermaid Butts, DJ scrambles to hide
Speaker 1: her collage as she tells Kimmy she's not supposed to
Speaker 1: be in this room. Stephanie takes a jab while walking
Speaker 1: out the door. I've been telling her that for years.
Speaker 1: I laughed out loud, like, that's like your delivery on
Speaker 1: the crowds. You can tell when an actor loves delivering certain.
Speaker 3: Live Yeah again, our.
Speaker 2: Bits have always been he can enjoy it anytime. You
Speaker 2: and I got to just be ridiculous and throw jabs
Speaker 2: at each other with so much fun because I love
Speaker 2: you and so it was like it was just a fun,
Speaker 2: ridiculous thing to do.
Speaker 1: Oh so fun, just classic from the very beginning. So
Speaker 1: Kimmy pays Steph no mind and proceeds to give DJ
Speaker 1: the invitation to her surprise birthday party. DJ gives her
Speaker 1: a knowing look. You're throwing yourself a surprise birthday party.
Speaker 1: Kimmy nods yeah, and this is a face I'm gonna use.
Speaker 1: She throws her arms in the air and gasps with excitement, much.
Speaker 3: Like Andrea is doing right now. I'll have you all now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how I did it
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, I think it was more like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was exactly it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I still got it, DJ, Oh you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: DJ reads the invitation out loud, revealing that Kimmy's birthday
Speaker 1: party will be held at the Excelsior Hotel. DJ asks
Speaker 1: how she managed to swing that, and Kimmy explains, my
Speaker 1: brother Garth is a bell hop. He can sneak us
Speaker 1: into the pool area. Garth is very useful as like
Speaker 1: a plot point or like a you know.
Speaker 3: To explain. He's always getting it.
Speaker 2: He is always leading Kimmy into trouble, always, whether it
Speaker 2: be terrible magic tricks or yeah, you know, a pool party.
Speaker 1: Sneak ins Yep, he's definitely a gibbler. Kimmy pulls out
Speaker 1: a piece of paper from her famous fanny pack and
Speaker 1: tells DJ. If anyone asks your Heather's zinc from Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and you're staying in room fifteen forty one, you know,
Speaker 1: there's always deception involve when it's gibblers. It's never a
Speaker 1: right though exactly. I know you're a different skirting on
Speaker 1: the edge of right of stuff. Okay, So DJ frowns,
Speaker 1: you're having a pool party in November? What a dumb idea?
Speaker 1: Gim Me explains that the hotel has an indoor pool
Speaker 1: and tomorrow they can go shopping for new bathing suits.
Speaker 1: She can't stop grinning, telling DJ, this party is going
Speaker 1: to be so rad. It's so so rad. DJ responds, yeah,
Speaker 1: rad for you, because you have the perfect body. Give
Speaker 1: me questions me the perfect body. She examines herself from
Speaker 1: all angles and concludes, well, I guess I can't argue
Speaker 1: with you there, and strikes a pose like I cringe,
Speaker 1: like I wa we can tell no, you can tell me.
Speaker 2: I was gonna like, I'm watching it, well this whole episode,
Speaker 2: I'm just watching you in Candice both uh, just be
Speaker 2: super like hating.
Speaker 3: I can feel it.
Speaker 1: You can feel it. You can feel it. It's you know,
Speaker 1: we had to just power through it. But no, I
Speaker 1: hate it.
Speaker 2: I mean was sort of you know, a good vibe
Speaker 2: for the show that it's like there was sort of
Speaker 2: but yeah, I definitely and again we have lots to
Speaker 2: talk about, but.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we go with the show. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh oh wow, yeah as a child actor, as a teenager,
Speaker 1: I did not like even though it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a compliment, oh you have the perfect body. I
Speaker 1: was so self conscious trying to be like, oh, yes, I.
Speaker 2: Owe right, and then yeah, and like any cringe, I
Speaker 2: mean say that in middle school, high school, that's you're
Speaker 2: getting roast in Fred.
Speaker 1: Done, Yeah, you are done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So DJ insists there is no way she's wearing a
Speaker 1: bathing suit in front of everyone until she looks like
Speaker 1: one of the models in her magazines. Kimm he throws
Speaker 1: her arm around DJ and pleads, you're my best friend.
Speaker 1: You have to come to my party. DJ size all right,
Speaker 1: I'll come, but this means I only have two weeks
Speaker 1: to get skinny starting right now. She walks over to
Speaker 1: the box of cookies that she was snacking on and
Speaker 1: throws them in the trash and then she asks Kimmy,
Speaker 1: how do you stay so thin in Kimmy admits, I
Speaker 1: exercise like Wiste bends. For example. She demonstrates the exercise
Speaker 1: by bending down and grabbing the box of cookies out
Speaker 1: of the trash can. Then Kimmy says she watches what
Speaker 1: she eats. So she examines the cookie and declares this
Speaker 1: looks good and sticks the whole thing in her mouth.
Speaker 1: Like talk about oblivious, Like Kimmy, come on French, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was, Well, it's her birthday. She's feeling
Speaker 3: herself in that onesie, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She's like, let's blame the onesie, Like she's just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she was.
Speaker 2: She was too distracted with the amazing outfit, and.
Speaker 1: She was like, let's blame the mermaid butts. You know,
Speaker 1: when all else fails.
Speaker 2: You know what, That's what I do, uh with everything,
Speaker 2: I just I go off. You know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: blame Andrea's onesie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mermaid butts are always to blame. So next in
Speaker 1: the kitchen, DJ is sticking pictures of models onto the
Speaker 1: refrigerator doors. When Becky walks.
Speaker 3: In, looks, there's the model, there's the one that's the Yes.
Speaker 1: The aforementioned documentarian. That's right. Becky looks at the pictures
Speaker 1: and comments, Wow, I guess your dad and the guys
Speaker 1: will like these a lot better than Michelle's finger paintings.
Speaker 3: Creepy, right.
Speaker 1: DJ explains her thought process looking at these models is
Speaker 1: going to help her stay out of the refrigerator, but
Speaker 1: Becky's puzzled. You're trying to lose weight. DJ nods with determination,
Speaker 1: I have two weeks to look like you. Do you
Speaker 1: mind if I scotch tape you to the refrigerator. Becky
Speaker 1: smiles and lends some advice. If you want to lose
Speaker 1: a couple of pounds, all you have to do is
Speaker 1: eat Sensibly, you can have broiled fish, lean chicken without
Speaker 1: the skin, fresh fruits, delicious steamed vegetables.
Speaker 3: Bory sorright.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's no right, where's the carbs? Come on?
Speaker 3: People like yeah, right, yeah, whore's the carbs? There's nothing fried.
Speaker 1: I don't know. These ain't These ain't my vegetables.
Speaker 3: Why is Becky lying?
Speaker 1: So DJ reminds her that she's trying to keep her
Speaker 1: mind off of food, and Becky WinCE's sorry. The most
Speaker 1: important thing is to keep the junk food out of
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: And that I will I will say, is a very
Speaker 2: that is a very true statement. Just it's not in
Speaker 2: the house. It's that's a way because I love sugar
Speaker 2: so same same ye.
Speaker 3: If it's in the house, I will eat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just keep gout of the house. No, her advice
Speaker 1: isn't bad, like it's good, no advice about healthy eating it.
Speaker 3: But the statement should have been like what do you mean,
Speaker 3: like you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's talking to a teenager who is at a
Speaker 1: perfectly healthy weight, who she just saw taping sinspow pictures
Speaker 1: onto a refrigerator. That's the problem, Like you.
Speaker 2: Don't need, but that was the that was the diet
Speaker 2: culture of that time, you know, was like that was
Speaker 2: just kind of what you did.
Speaker 3: It was normal.
Speaker 2: You like, you know, would put those like things they
Speaker 2: put on the bridge and you'd open it and it
Speaker 2: would make like a pig noise or something like.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing stuff like that and it's like yeah.
Speaker 1: No, wow, wow, yeah, no nineties. I'm excited to talk
Speaker 1: to our resident expert nutritionist Melanie Samuels later on about
Speaker 1: this because I'm sure she has a lot of thoughts
Speaker 1: about nineties diet culture and yeah, how this episode, yeah,
Speaker 1: go over today, Like can you imagine this episode?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2: Like there were definitely parts of it that I was
Speaker 2: like just that made me, yeah, really like uncomfortable, or
Speaker 2: where we were h at discussing young women's bodies, frames health,
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 3: Like I was just like, oh, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little we definitely didn't do anyone
Speaker 2: any favors.
Speaker 1: It was very it was very uncomfortable to watch. It
Speaker 1: made me really feel for Candice too, having to carry
Speaker 1: this storyline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know, I know it was something that
Speaker 2: she was sensitive about and you know, and it was, yeah,
Speaker 2: which hurts, like, Hey, we're gonna make an entire storyline
Speaker 2: about the thing that you are the most.
Speaker 1: I mean you and what teenage girl isn't self conscious?
Speaker 3: Isn't We're like, we're going to make an entire episode
Speaker 3: about it? And yeah, that's yeah, I did. I really
Speaker 3: felt for her in this one, because I know it's hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's hard when it's something that you're really dealing
Speaker 2: with to be like, oh, I'm going to pretend that
Speaker 2: this is fine, right, and that I can resolve it.
Speaker 1: You know. Well, I know that Jeff, Jeff went to
Speaker 1: the cameras, you went to your parents and Candice and
Speaker 1: so it's just okay, and they said, yeah, so they
Speaker 1: gave their blessing. But it doesn't negate the fact that
Speaker 1: it's a spot whell on a teenage girl and insecurity.
Speaker 2: And I think it's also, you know, viewing it with
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounded really weird, right, doesn't twenty five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, But you know, I think we've come
Speaker 2: so far in the discussion and in how we feel
Speaker 2: like as women talking about our bodies and our weight
Speaker 2: and stuff, that we're like you would never like there's
Speaker 2: so many other different ways to go about this, right, But.
Speaker 3: You know, at the time and I I do know,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Jeff was always super sensitive about stuff and I know that,
Speaker 2: you know, and to be fair, it was an important episode.
Speaker 2: It was. I mean, there are a lot of young
Speaker 2: women struggling with it. There's no good way to sort
Speaker 2: of discuss it without you know, hanging a hat on
Speaker 2: the fact that it's that might be something that you're
Speaker 2: a little self conscious about anyway. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's just interesting to go back and watch, uh yeah,
Speaker 2: just the way the way in which we discuss things
Speaker 2: that's changed so drastically.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I guess it's it isn't it's. I agree,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely an important episode for people to watch, for
Speaker 1: kids and teenagers to watch. I guess it's hard to
Speaker 1: divorce the idea of the actor versus the character. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like there's still a real person who has to
Speaker 1: say these lines and feel these emotions.
Speaker 2: Right, and that's what they Also it's hard for us
Speaker 2: because we know that feeling of that all of your
Speaker 2: peers are going to see this and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, and like it's different when you're an adult like,
Speaker 2: I don't care you think you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. As a teenage girl, it is.
Speaker 2: It's the most horrifying thing to, you know, talk about
Speaker 2: anything that you're uncomfortable with, let alone to.
Speaker 3: Do it on a you know show that's immensely popular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a that's a that's a that was
Speaker 1: a tall order and uh a fire Candace for getting
Speaker 1: through it as well as she did. You know that
Speaker 1: she did a fantastic performance. But yeah, definitely hard to
Speaker 1: watch at many many moments in this episode. So where
Speaker 1: are we? Jesse barges in shouting cake is here, and
Speaker 1: Becky tries to handle the situation by telling Jesse they
Speaker 1: should do this another time, but DJ chimes in, that's okay, Becky,
Speaker 1: I don't need any cake. She walks over to the
Speaker 1: freezer and tells her she'll just eat one of the
Speaker 1: delicious water pops that she made. She pulls out an
Speaker 1: ice cube on a popsicle stick to show her. Jesse
Speaker 1: shouts loudly for the entire house to hear. Everybody, get
Speaker 1: in here. I need some opinions. When no one comes
Speaker 1: rushing in, he rephrases his statement free cake. This causes
Speaker 1: everyone to burst into the room immediately, including Michelle, who
Speaker 1: yells I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, Danny Grebb, Danny.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I didn't. I'm sorry I didn't. I couldn't
Speaker 3: what I was trying to be good, I just could.
Speaker 3: There was no way you could say that.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't be inappropriate. Sorry, it was just your
Speaker 1: face like I should have just not. Yeah, I was anything.
Speaker 2: I saw you were going through it, and I but
Speaker 2: I let out a noise and I wouldn't help that.
Speaker 1: That's restraint for you. I admire that level of restraint.
Speaker 3: How I've grown you have you have?
Speaker 1: So? Uh, Michelle is coming coming, I mean, and then
Speaker 1: Tanny puts her on a chair and she says, I'm here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go, let's get that. Jesse tells everyone that
Speaker 1: they're going to help pick out the wedding cake. Becky
Speaker 1: is confused. She says, I thought we decided on chocolate cake.
Speaker 1: Jesse nods, we did, but chocolate is not just chocolate anymore.
Speaker 1: He pulls the cover off the tray to reveal twenty
Speaker 1: different cake samples. Michelle's eyes widen at the site. Whoa baby,
Speaker 1: Jesse describes all of the different chocolate flavors that are
Speaker 1: in front of them, plus a slice of carrot cake.
Speaker 3: Love Carrett.
Speaker 1: Oh, I you too, ma'am. I know this.
Speaker 3: Remember Porto's carrot cake.
Speaker 2: That's Cannas's favorite, and we would get it for like
Speaker 2: her birthday or she directed or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we would. Porto's chocolate or carrot cake is so
Speaker 1: good man.
Speaker 2: I'm really carrot cake is only good because of the
Speaker 2: chocolate or the chocolate the cream cheese frobs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the best part. The carrots are optional.
Speaker 1: It's really about the right. Yeah, cream cheese from.
Speaker 3: But I call it a salad.
Speaker 1: It's healthier than a watergate side it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at it. It's not chocolate vegetable in there.
Speaker 3: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: It's one of the five flood groups, you know it is.
Speaker 3: It's just protein in the cream cheese.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Come on, you're covered, man, you are covered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: So everyone's confused about the carrot cake, and Jesse explains
Speaker 1: the carrot cake was sitting there so lonely. No one
Speaker 1: picks carrot cake. Michelle interrupts him, saying, let's peg out
Speaker 1: Danny tells her she's not being very polite, so Michelle
Speaker 1: corrects herself, let's pig out please. Joey looks over it DJ,
Speaker 1: who is standing away from everyone else. He motions for
Speaker 1: her to come over so she doesn't miss any cake.
Speaker 1: DJ responds, who needs cake when you can lick ice
Speaker 1: on a stick. She tries her water pop and fakes
Speaker 1: a smile. Mmm, wet and cold. And that's about it.
Speaker 3: Why didn't anyone say anything at that point?
Speaker 1: There's so many red flags just in this scene, and
Speaker 1: nobody chatches on. Nobody. She's got mom's take on.
Speaker 3: Probably would if she was, if she was involved, Michelle
Speaker 3: would know.
Speaker 2: As a therapist, yeah, she'd be like, I am greatly concerned.
Speaker 1: Yes, but Michelle should have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if one of my girls was like, oh no,
Speaker 2: it's all right, I'm gonna skip cake and have an
Speaker 2: ice cube, I would be like, Okay, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Right? That doesn't that be good? Huge red flag? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: all the adults missed it, like it's like, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, the nineties was the nineties, right, So
Speaker 1: Michelle is still staring at the cake samples, and she admits,
Speaker 1: I can't take it I need that cake. She hops
Speaker 1: onto the table and grabs the cake slices with her hands,
Speaker 1: shoving as much as she can into her mouth, and
Speaker 1: the adults just watch her like.
Speaker 3: And again the adults go oh right, laugh at her.
Speaker 1: Danny Tanner laughs at her, what right he would be horrified?
Speaker 1: Fie like this is just.
Speaker 2: I do remember the uh Mary Kate being very excited
Speaker 2: about the scene, no doubt, like that is a dream,
Speaker 2: like okay, can I do it now? It was like, okay,
Speaker 2: this time is the time you go eat the cake?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the audience loved it. The audience was, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was adorable.
Speaker 3: It was very cute, very.
Speaker 1: Cute, and yeah, Danny should have said something, but whatever,
Speaker 1: I will overlook them.
Speaker 3: The joke's gotta work.
Speaker 1: Just a joke always has to work. So Jesse pauses
Speaker 1: her sugar rush and asks which cake sample she liked best.
Speaker 1: With her mouth covered in cake, she says, chocolate wamp.
Speaker 1: Back in the girls room, Steph is sitting in bed
Speaker 1: while DJ stands in front of a scale. She tells
Speaker 1: her younger sister it's way in time and she hates
Speaker 1: this part. Steph tries to cheer her up. By playing
Speaker 1: way in music. She begins to play on top of
Speaker 1: all smoky yet again, but the note is still falling flat.
Speaker 1: That's when Jesse walks in, his face scrunched from the
Speaker 1: unpleasant music. He asks Steph to have mercy on his ears.
Speaker 1: DJ looks at the scale and size. This can't be right.
Speaker 1: Two days and I've only lost half a pound. I'm
Speaker 1: going off this stupid diet. Jesse responds, good, you don't
Speaker 1: need to be on a diet anyway. You want to
Speaker 1: shape up a little bit, just exercise. In fact, why
Speaker 1: don't you go work out at Michelle's gym? And DJ jokes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I really want Michelle's body, And Jesse laughs and
Speaker 1: tells her they have an adult gym too, Like Michelle's
Speaker 1: the only one in the family with a gym member, with.
Speaker 2: A gym members Yeah, She's like, I gotta go, I
Speaker 2: gotta go work out guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michelle's do we want.
Speaker 1: An adult in the family. She's a therapist.
Speaker 3: She's right, a therapist. She's got a gym membership. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Really, Michelle is the only fully functioning adult in the house.
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, She gets herself dressed every morning,
Speaker 2: does her hair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she watches herself. Yeah, this is she.
Speaker 3: The afs me.
Speaker 2: Ring into the kitchen after everyone's been up for a
Speaker 2: couple hours like that, guys, and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: look at Michelle.
Speaker 3: We didn't know you were here.
Speaker 1: We thought you went to work the nineties. Oh. So
Speaker 1: they make a plan for Saturday, the whole family can
Speaker 1: go to the gym together since they could all use
Speaker 1: a little toning up, except in Jesse's case, he brags
Speaker 1: that he would just be toning tone.
Speaker 3: Toning, tony, tony. All right, this is nineties shout back.
Speaker 1: Steph offers to provide the workout music. She tries to
Speaker 1: redeem her version of On Top of Old Smokey again,
Speaker 1: but it still isn't working. Michelle walks in after hearing
Speaker 1: this noise. She puts her hands on her hips and says, Stephanie,
Speaker 1: you are not good. Jesse decides step in and help
Speaker 1: his knees. He takes the recorder and plays the same song,
Speaker 1: but alas he can't hit that note either. Michelle frowns
Speaker 1: in his direction, you are not good too. She's so funny,
Speaker 1: like her delivery of all of her lines in this episode, just.
Speaker 3: Yeah and I like, I always.
Speaker 2: I can absolutely picture Adria on the side of it
Speaker 2: doing it herself, and then them repeating, do.
Speaker 1: You know did Brian Cale give Adria line readings? Like
Speaker 1: I'm just like Adrian was so big.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think they. Yeah, No, they worked together.
Speaker 2: Brian Cale the dialogue like would work with they, you know,
Speaker 2: he kind of delivered the notes from like Jeff and
Speaker 2: directors and whatever what they were looking for would tell Adria,
Speaker 2: and then she knew them well enough that her, you know,
Speaker 2: she would get them to kind of say it how
Speaker 2: they want it.
Speaker 1: Amazing. This is just an amazing It's like a game
Speaker 1: of telephone again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: So Jesse examines the recorder and realizes there's something stuck
Speaker 1: in there. He blows a bunch of air to dislodge
Speaker 1: the object, and it lands on Michelle's forehead. It's a
Speaker 1: piece of gum. At least it wasn't a dart with
Speaker 1: the bright pink gum stuck to her head. Michelle scowls
Speaker 1: at her, sis her, that is not funny. It's funny
Speaker 1: to me, but HILARI, yeah, great to me. So next
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, Danny is washing the dishes, as Comet
Speaker 1: observes him, just like perched there on the counter.
Speaker 2: Right, just waiting to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Danny proudly shows off the plate he just washed and
Speaker 1: holds it in front of the dog, telling him he
Speaker 1: can see himself in the reflection. Colmet licks the dish
Speaker 1: clean in response.
Speaker 2: Then I feel like Danny the dog paws on the counter.
Speaker 2: Danny would be like absolutely not no.
Speaker 1: Like none of this. Danny is not himself in this episode,
Speaker 1: like between the cake and the dog and the licking, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's distracted. He's very, very distracted. So then Kimmy
Speaker 1: and DJ walk in. Kimmy looks at Danny and asks
Speaker 1: doing dishes another big Saturday, huh, mister t Danny narrows
Speaker 1: his eyes. It's good to see you too, Kimmy. Then
Speaker 1: he tells DJ that she missed lunch, but he saved
Speaker 1: her a sandwich. DJ halfheartedly thinks him. Kimmy reaches into
Speaker 1: her shopping bag to show off the new bathing suit
Speaker 1: she bought for her pool party. It's a red bikini
Speaker 1: with flowers all over it, and Danny admits it's you,
Speaker 1: Kimmy loud. Kimmy get like she's so clueless. Like, come on, Kimmy, like,
Speaker 1: we don't hate to rub it in to DJ.
Speaker 2: The she's been dragging DJ around the mall, uh, trying
Speaker 2: on bathing suits while d is visibly uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Visibly uncomfortable. I know, I mean, Kimmy's dense, we all
Speaker 1: know that, but come on, this is your best friend.
Speaker 1: Like she definitely we can be a little, uh oblivious,
Speaker 1: a little, she's a lot, She's a lot oblivious in
Speaker 1: this episode. Uh So, Danny directs his attention back to
Speaker 1: DJ and tells her to eat up before they go
Speaker 1: to the gym. DJ nervously tells Kimy that she's skipping
Speaker 1: lunch today and offers Kimmy the sandwich instead. Kimmy agrees
Speaker 1: and takes the plate. Examining the food, she realizes it's
Speaker 1: ham again and reminds DJ, I've been eating your lunch
Speaker 1: for three days, and every sandwich's ham. Did your dad
Speaker 1: hit a pig with his car?
Speaker 3: That one actually made me laugh? Like that, that's a
Speaker 3: good one.
Speaker 1: DJ responds by waving her hand and saying goodbye, Kimmy.
Speaker 1: She leaves, and that's when Steph, who's been observing in
Speaker 1: the background, comes downstairs. She has overheard the conversation and
Speaker 1: asks DJ if she really has been giving her lunches
Speaker 1: to Kimmy. DJ shrugs, yeah, so what. Steph reminds her
Speaker 1: that she's been skipping breakfast and dinner too. She adds,
Speaker 1: I'm no expert, but shouldn't a person eat? Yes?
Speaker 3: Always?
Speaker 1: DJ hesitates before telling Steph she's right, she'll eat her
Speaker 1: sandwich today. Stephanie asks, you promise, and DJ nods, I promise,
Speaker 1: and she takes a small bite of the sandwich to
Speaker 1: prove it. Steph smiles much better. Now, get yourself an
Speaker 1: apple and a glass of milk, and your basic food groups.
Speaker 3: Are covered, and have a bowl of some fibers.
Speaker 1: And fiber yeah, fiber spears. Steph is the only one
Speaker 1: with good like dietary advisor. You know you got an apple,
Speaker 1: you got milk.
Speaker 2: You gotta stash the dietician of the Happy Michelle. She
Speaker 2: works in tandem with Michelle.
Speaker 1: They are going to keep this family afloat with yeah, yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah. They're gonna drag them all to the gem
Speaker 3: if it kills them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Uh so, hm, where am I? Oh? Yeah? Wait, no,
Speaker 1: where am I? Yep? One? Uh?
Speaker 2: After smiles nods Steph's gone after the basic food groups
Speaker 2: are going okay, got it.
Speaker 1: Once stuff is gone, DJ grabs a napkin and spits
Speaker 1: the food out. Then she calls Comt over and gives
Speaker 1: him the rest of her sandwich. Stephanie runs downstairs at
Speaker 1: the same time and witnesses this. DJ sighs as she
Speaker 1: tells Comet, You're lucky. Dogs don't have to wear bathing suits.
Speaker 1: Melancholy music plays as Stephanie watches her sister with sadness.
Speaker 3: We cut to us, mean dogs don't have to wear
Speaker 3: bathing suits?
Speaker 1: Well, sure they can. I mean you saw Holly earlier.
Speaker 3: Didn't bikini at some point.
Speaker 1: We probably did, and I justly we haven't gotten there.
Speaker 1: Didn't the dog wear like board shorts in the best Yeah, dog.
Speaker 2: In that in that gigantic uh thing where I had
Speaker 2: broken myself and was sitting in a in a tall
Speaker 2: chair the whole time like a house plant. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: put the dog in board shorts. That was like a
Speaker 2: fever dream. The dog was in board shorts.
Speaker 1: We were hiding your broken leg because we hadn't written
Speaker 1: it into the script yet, right amaz.
Speaker 2: I think I was actually doing the move that you
Speaker 2: did at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1: I was just waving my arms around in that episode.
Speaker 1: The ironic thing is you're the only one in the
Speaker 1: cast that really can dance, and you're the only one
Speaker 1: that commissioned that.
Speaker 3: And I was like, nope, yeah, you got it.
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Speaker 1: at how rude merch. Eh. So when we come back
Speaker 1: from our sad commercial break, Stephanie approaches DJ. You said
Speaker 1: you'd eat your sandwich. You lied. DJ makes an excuse,
Speaker 1: uh comment, stole it right out of my hand. DJ
Speaker 1: accuses her of lying again. DJ argues, no, I'm not,
Speaker 1: and Stephanie throws her arms in the air. Lie number three,
Speaker 1: When will this end? And I noticed that Candace is
Speaker 1: like looking, not looking directly at you when she says
Speaker 1: these things, which is sort of a throwback to the
Speaker 1: beer drinking episode when you're like, I can always tell
Speaker 1: when DJ lies, right because she doesn't look at me
Speaker 1: in the ice, look me in the eye. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, here it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was good, very good for.
Speaker 1: A show that's not known for continuity. Like I was
Speaker 1: very impressed. Right, I'm so glad we got that right
Speaker 1: At least forgot one thing right. Yeah, so DJ explains,
Speaker 1: I've got one week to look good in a bathing
Speaker 1: suit in front of my friends. When the party's over,
Speaker 1: I'll start eating again. But until then, this is.
Speaker 3: Our secret, terrible secret.
Speaker 1: No, Steph hesitates, so DJ insists that she give that
Speaker 1: she gives her the pinky, but Steph worriedly shakes her head. No,
Speaker 1: not the pinky. DJ begs, you have to promise not
Speaker 1: to tell anyone that I haven't been eating. When her
Speaker 1: little sister doesn't oblige, DJ grabs her hand and forces
Speaker 1: her to do the pinky swear anyway. Stephanie hesitantly tells
Speaker 1: DJ that she pinky swears, but she doesn't like it.
Speaker 1: DJ responds, too bad. Your lips are sealed.
Speaker 3: Pinky squares are legally bind they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and this is I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: good episode for you, for your character too. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, DJ, this is her episode, but like this
Speaker 1: is a moral dilemma for Stephanie too, and you really
Speaker 1: watch your character struggle.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you have, you know, multiple kids, you
Speaker 2: know that there's always something that comes up, usually with
Speaker 2: the older one and sometimes with younger one.
Speaker 3: That the other sibling knows, and it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I can't you know.
Speaker 2: It's very it's a difficult position for kids to be
Speaker 2: in because they want the approval oh yeah, the older sibling,
Speaker 2: and they want to be like, you can tell me
Speaker 2: things and I'm not going to blow it. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, like I would like, I've always want
Speaker 2: makeism like if someone is in danger or it, you know,
Speaker 2: like something really bad is happening, then there's no there's
Speaker 2: no secrets, right.
Speaker 1: It's okay to break the promise if it's.
Speaker 3: If someone is in someone is in danger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's definitely like a it's an internal struggle
Speaker 1: that you see Steph dealing with throughout the whole episode.
Speaker 1: So yeah, good episode for both of you. So next
Speaker 1: we're in the gym. Oh boy, the gym is filled
Speaker 1: with muscular people dressed in tights, leg warmers, neon tank tops,
Speaker 1: and sweat bands.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: So peak nineties eighties, Like.
Speaker 2: I was expecting Jane Fonda across through the camera, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like she it was like the
Speaker 2: aerobics of the song did people really wear that?
Speaker 3: Did really they really would like shorts on? And then
Speaker 3: like a thong unitard Leo's whatever over.
Speaker 1: It that it was stylish for I mean not long,
Speaker 1: but yes, I remember those like I would never wear
Speaker 1: one myself. But no, this is almost this whole scene
Speaker 1: looks like a parody, like an SNL parody on the nineties.
Speaker 1: It is basically it's so extreme, but that's how the
Speaker 1: nineties were. It was just obnoxious and loud.
Speaker 2: It was truly, Yeah, it was. It was very bright,
Speaker 2: very loud, and very lumpy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I granted I don't go to the
Speaker 1: gym very often at all, but I've never been in
Speaker 1: a gym like this with so many body builders and like.
Speaker 3: Look, let me tell you.
Speaker 2: I go to Equinox and I just look around like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, there's too many pretty people here. Miserable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everyone looks great. I'm like, none of you need to
Speaker 2: come here. Then you guys can all go home.
Speaker 1: Why are you? Yeah, you're fine to wait to decimate
Speaker 1: your self esteem by going.
Speaker 2: To the ah, right, But you know what, I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make myself feel better by wearing a thong
Speaker 2: lead heard.
Speaker 3: Please do ya?
Speaker 2: That was gonna be great, Like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 2: what we should be doing.
Speaker 1: So DJ and Steph enter first, and Steph Steph's face sours.
Speaker 1: It smells like a sweat sock in here. Joey flexes
Speaker 1: his muscles and says, yep, these are my people. He
Speaker 1: walks up to a very muscular and very sweaty guy,
Speaker 1: asking what do you bench, dude, and the man flexes
Speaker 1: his muscles and says Bible five. Joey confidently responds beginner, Huh,
Speaker 1: it's cool, and the man smirks it better be. Michelle
Speaker 1: looks at the man with fascination and comments, you are
Speaker 1: very lumpy.
Speaker 3: Indeed, yes he is, you are.
Speaker 1: Jesse cracks a nervous smile. I hope you're not offended,
Speaker 1: but if you are, that's her.
Speaker 3: Father right there.
Speaker 1: Danny is standing with Becky, Steph and DJ when DJ
Speaker 1: asks what's the best way to burn off calories? Again
Speaker 1: red flag.
Speaker 2: Number in the air, like, Hey, something's going on with
Speaker 2: your child, right, And they're like, oh, you want to
Speaker 2: burn the most calories when just really shred it out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, and Danny gives her advice. He says, tells
Speaker 1: her to make it fun and points out a bike
Speaker 1: for her to try. He encourages DJ to start off
Speaker 1: slow though on level one, so she doesn't do too
Speaker 1: much too soon. Okay, okay, that's good advice.
Speaker 3: We'll take that.
Speaker 1: We'll take it. Becky and stuff split off so they
Speaker 1: can stretch before aerobics class.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, because they love having children in adult workout lives,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, they're like, yeah, sure, no, just bring them
Speaker 2: in for you an eight year old? Why not?
Speaker 3: Eight pound doesn't matter totally.
Speaker 1: Very truely, I didn't think about that that you just
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Yep.
Speaker 2: What there's Stephanie in the she's the only kid in
Speaker 2: the only kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then the guys are the only guys.
Speaker 1: Although I guess you know, aerobics or co ed. That's fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we've got kids, we've got boys, we've got
Speaker 1: idiots like that's it's the whole gamut.
Speaker 3: Lumpy people.
Speaker 1: So meanwhile, Michelle is demanding that Joey and Jesse take
Speaker 1: her to the kiddy gym. She stomps in the right direction,
Speaker 1: saying one two, one two with each step she takes.
Speaker 1: Danny follows after them.
Speaker 3: So she runs this house with iron.
Speaker 1: She really does well. She she's yeah, she's the therapist.
Speaker 1: She's she's like, now we're going to my gym.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh okay, she's she's a leader.
Speaker 2: Truly, She's probably a little pissed off that everyone's kind
Speaker 2: of encroaching on her gym time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: This is like like her hour.
Speaker 2: You know, every couple of days you're like, oh, I
Speaker 2: just got out of the house and then you know
Speaker 2: it like clear my mind, and now everyone's coming with her.
Speaker 1: She's right, She's like, this is the one bright spot
Speaker 1: in my day where I where I'm away from the.
Speaker 2: Got sweated out, just really you know, get on the elliptical,
Speaker 2: work it out.
Speaker 3: And she's like, now you guys are here ruin everything.
Speaker 1: I feel for her, I really do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, Michelle.
Speaker 1: So DJ's alone at the bike and she decides to
Speaker 1: make some adjustments. She changes the bike from level one
Speaker 1: to level seventy five and picks up the pace.
Speaker 2: Yikes, I'm impressed with her pedaling at seventy five. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: that's going That's not easy.
Speaker 1: So next in the kiddy Jim, Michelle arrives into the
Speaker 1: kid area and says hi to a few kids that
Speaker 1: she sees. Hi, Zachary, Hi, Kelsey, Hi kid, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Jesse pauses in the middle of the play area and
Speaker 1: reminds Michelle to warm up first, so she touches her
Speaker 1: toes three times and announces ready Freddy. Joey takes her
Speaker 1: hand and puts on his best announcer voice, saying that
Speaker 1: Michelle is competing in a triathlon. The first event is
Speaker 1: a trampoline. Michelle grabs onto the support bar and does
Speaker 1: some big jumps as she exclaims, I love this. Joey says,
Speaker 1: let's see that again in slow motion. He grabs Michelle
Speaker 1: and slowly raises her in the air as he says
Speaker 1: in a slow motion voice, I love this. Danny and
Speaker 1: Jesse give her a big round of applause. Joey takes
Speaker 1: her to the next event, the balance beam. Michelle easily
Speaker 1: walks across the grounded beam without breaking a sweat, and
Speaker 1: Joey says she's working without a net.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Lastly, Michelle will attempt a single tuck somersault with no twist.
Speaker 1: Danny and Jesse look at each other with anticipation. Joey
Speaker 1: reminds him that they need complete silence. As she prepares.
Speaker 1: Michelle takes a few exaggerated deep breaths before executing her summersault.
Speaker 1: She stands with her arms raised Teta. Everyone gives her
Speaker 1: a big round of applause, and she shouts, I am
Speaker 1: pumped for giving us a muscled up pose.
Speaker 3: Such a necessary scene.
Speaker 2: It really changes the entire direction of where we're going
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if they're just trying to keep it light
Speaker 1: hearted or it's like, oh, well, I mean you can't.
Speaker 3: Well you've got to give it like that.
Speaker 2: There's been probably some time for Yeah, you've got to
Speaker 2: kind of be out of the main gym and focused
Speaker 2: on Michelle.
Speaker 1: Very true, very true.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised though nobody said anything these you know, three
Speaker 2: adult dudes walking into the kiddie Jim and they're.
Speaker 1: Just like, come on in, yeah, I know, there's it's
Speaker 1: such a different time now again. I always go for
Speaker 1: like the reality of things.
Speaker 3: I know it. We're definitely not a reality land.
Speaker 1: But it's it is funny. So next we're back in
Speaker 1: the main gym. Danny is breathing heavily as he holds
Speaker 1: a barbell in front of his face. The guys are
Speaker 1: encouraging him, saying he's got one more rep in him.
Speaker 1: Danny counts his REP two as He pushes the bar
Speaker 1: above his head and we see that there are little
Speaker 1: to no weight to add it on to it. DJ meanwhile,
Speaker 1: is still on the bike and she is drenched in sweat.
Speaker 1: She's continuing to pedal as hard as she can. The
Speaker 1: machine beeps and she stops peddling. She jumps off the bike,
Speaker 1: runs over to the scale, but is disappointed when she
Speaker 1: sees her weight. Another girl hops off the elliptical nearby,
Speaker 1: and DJ looks at her body with admiration. She hops
Speaker 1: onto the same elliptical machine and pedals quickly despite her breathlessness.
Speaker 1: Becky tells the guys it's aerobics time, so Jesse and
Speaker 1: Steph follow after her. Danny shakes his head, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to aerobics. Joey puffs his chest and says in
Speaker 1: a deep voice, me neither. But then a beautiful woman
Speaker 1: passes by and tells her friend that they have to
Speaker 1: hurry up so they don't miss aerobics. Joey stares at
Speaker 1: them longingly and says me neither, before following them, and
Speaker 1: Danny repeats me neither and follows after them too. I
Speaker 1: get the joke, but this is a terrible episode To
Speaker 1: make this joke that they're like lusty, right, beautiful women?
Speaker 1: Come on?
Speaker 2: I mean again, it was the the room. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: well Danny's oblivious, so he has no idea.
Speaker 1: He has no clue they're not seeing.
Speaker 3: Any of them. Were they planning on working out at all?
Speaker 2: Like? What were Danny and Joey gonna do if they
Speaker 2: weren't going to aerobics and they're not lifting weights?
Speaker 3: Did they just come to harassed bodybuilders? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just there to watch the shell. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's not well thought out, but
Speaker 1: we get this hilarious sight gag in the next scene
Speaker 1: in the in the aerobics class, well, dj is pushing
Speaker 1: herself way too hard on the elliptical. We cut to
Speaker 1: the aerobics class. Danny, Jesse, and Joey are trying to
Speaker 1: follow the aerobics instructors moves, but they are failing miserably.
Speaker 1: The instructor pumps up her students and calls out the
Speaker 1: guys specifically, come on, staring at a woman is not
Speaker 1: a workout, and Joey disagrees. It's got my heart going
Speaker 1: pretty good. The instructor asks the guys if they're going
Speaker 1: to make it in here. They unenthusiastically say yes. In unison,
Speaker 1: she asks do you always have tears in your eyes
Speaker 1: when you exercise? And they nod yes. She encourages them
Speaker 1: to move to the front so they can see her better.
Speaker 1: They oblige, and they make their way up to the
Speaker 1: front of the class while simultaneously trying to continue the workout.
Speaker 1: They move right in front of Becky and Steph and
Speaker 1: I love that you're wearing suspenders, like that's part of
Speaker 1: your workout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean you need it to keep a
Speaker 2: leotard up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: They have a tendency to slide down.
Speaker 2: I don't know it's but it was everyone's gym outfits
Speaker 2: for a family that doesn't go to the gym. They've
Speaker 2: got some really clean like Jim looks, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. They yes, put some effort into it.
Speaker 1: They did, they did, And I just thought you looked
Speaker 1: so dang cute when you're pink suspense and stuff.
Speaker 2: Laurie and I both had the little half half down
Speaker 2: like matching things.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was so cool.
Speaker 3: It was just nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the workout starts to get faster. The guys
Speaker 1: cannot get these moves down for the life of them,
Speaker 1: so their bodies are just flailing around without any rhythm whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Bob is particularly funny with this limbs.
Speaker 2: Bob's limbs, he always he just was gangly, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So he'd like start throwing his limbs around,
Speaker 2: and he just looked so awkward because he just could be.
Speaker 2: And if you look at my face, I am cracking
Speaker 2: up the whole time I'm watching Bob.
Speaker 3: I'm as usual. I'm watching Bob and I'm like just
Speaker 3: in the background laughing.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I didn't notice that. That's so great. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a sight to behold. Indeed. So the instructor
Speaker 1: tells everyone to rest, and the men fall to the floor.
Speaker 1: Steph grinns DJ's got to see this, and she runs
Speaker 1: out to find her sister. The instructor reminds everyone that
Speaker 1: that was just the warm up, so now they can
Speaker 1: start the class. The men grown at this news. Jesse
Speaker 1: decides he's gonna go work out with Michelle, and Danny
Speaker 1: follows suit. Joey, on the other hand, is still laying
Speaker 1: on the floor. He decides it would be best for
Speaker 1: him to stay there because he can't move.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 1: In the main gym, DJ is still pushing herself on
Speaker 1: the elliptical. When Steph finds her, she insists that DJ
Speaker 1: come and do aerobics with them because she's missing all
Speaker 1: the fun. DJ tells Steph she'll be right there and
Speaker 1: proceeds to get off the elliptical machine. When she starts
Speaker 1: to follow her sister, she looks disoriented and falls to
Speaker 1: the ground. Stephanie sees this and yells for her dad
Speaker 1: to help. The whole family gathers around DJ, and Danny
Speaker 1: asks if she's okay. DJ holds her head and admits
Speaker 1: she just got a little dizzy. Jesse gives her some
Speaker 1: water to drink, and DJ assures everyone that she's okay,
Speaker 1: she just overdid it. Stephanie tries to speak up but DJ,
Speaker 1: but DJ cuts off her little sister Steph, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Danny decides they better get Missy all and head on home,
Speaker 1: and Stephanie watches DJ with defeat. I can see that
Speaker 1: internal struggle. I can see it. Yeah, such a hard
Speaker 1: position to begin.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So in the kitchen, Steph is setting the table, Joey
Speaker 1: is finishing up dinner, and Becky is getting her feet
Speaker 1: rubbed by Jesse. DJ runs down and greets her family.
Speaker 1: Danny asks if she's feeling better after her nap, and
Speaker 1: she tells him she's good as new. Becky asks are
Speaker 1: you sure, and DJ nods yes, I'm sure. Steph chimes in,
Speaker 1: are you really sure? And DJ snaps would everybody quit
Speaker 1: making such a big deal about this?
Speaker 3: Joey tells DJ, I don't think they've made it a
Speaker 3: big deal enough right there.
Speaker 2: For the first two questions, and anyone's.
Speaker 1: Asks, well, this is short. She's hungry, like she's obviously
Speaker 1: like she is just angry and doesn't want anyone giving
Speaker 1: her any attention. Joey tells DJ he made her favorite
Speaker 1: chicken parmesan. He holds out the spoon for her to
Speaker 1: taste the sauce, but she makes another excuse. I can't.
Speaker 1: I just brushed my teeth. Jesse wonders before dinner, and
Speaker 1: she sighs doesn't anybody care about dental hygiene around here?
Speaker 1: And Danny tells her to calm down. In fact, he
Speaker 1: deeply cares about their family's teeth and gums. When he
Speaker 1: asks what's going on, DJ assures him it's nothing. She
Speaker 1: tells everyone that she's going over to Kimmy's for dinner.
Speaker 1: Stephanie decides to INTERVENE don't believe her dad. DJ reminds
Speaker 1: her she pinkies wore, and Steph persists, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to get sick. Oh, Steph, Oh, Steph.
Speaker 1: Steph tells her dad that DJ hasn't eaten in three days,
Speaker 1: and Danny is shocked. He asks DJ if that's true.
Speaker 1: Jesse insists that she sit and eat right now. She argues,
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm finally starting to lose weight. Joey tells
Speaker 1: her she's starving herself and she could do some serious
Speaker 1: damage to her body. Danny sternly tells her this kind
Speaker 1: of behavior can lead to serious eating disorders andarexia. Blameia,
Speaker 1: You're headed down a dangerous road here. DJ shouts, I
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm the one who has to wear a
Speaker 1: bathing suit next week. It's my life and I can
Speaker 1: do whatever I want. She storms away before they can
Speaker 1: tell her otherwise, and Danny follows her upstairs. Steph looks
Speaker 1: to her uncle Jesse for reassurance. I hope she's not
Speaker 1: mad at me, and Jesse tells her she did the
Speaker 1: right thing. And DJ's lucky to have a.
Speaker 3: Sister like her.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, this was a great scene. Like, this was a
Speaker 1: great scene. Yeah, Like they're finally they finally caught on.
Speaker 1: They're giving her some solid advice. Yeah, and Stephanie does
Speaker 1: the right thing, and of course stuff is just worried
Speaker 1: as DJ mad at me, like it's heartbreaking, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, which is always Yeah, that's always the thing,
Speaker 2: like someone's are like, oh, I maybe I did the
Speaker 2: right thing, but like.
Speaker 3: You're gonna hate you know, yeah, you know, but I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 2: That was like an example that they set on the
Speaker 2: show of like, look, even when you pinky swear and
Speaker 2: you know, if someone's in danger or not making smart,
Speaker 2: healthy choices, like you can break that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can say something. That's a great lesson,
Speaker 1: one of the one of the best lessons of the episode. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So up in the girls room, DJ storms into the
Speaker 1: room and Danny tells her they need to talk. DJ
Speaker 1: yells with tears in her eyes. You don't understand. I
Speaker 1: don't like the way I look.
Speaker 3: She grabs one of someone that stabbed me in the heart.
Speaker 2: Oh that one hurt, because I just know every teenage
Speaker 2: girl feels that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that got to me. That got to me too,
Speaker 1: like even now at age forty eight, like it just
Speaker 1: it brought me right back to being an insecure teenage girl.
Speaker 1: And even like even now, you know, like who is
Speaker 1: an insecure about certain parts of them? And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just you feel so badly for DJ, and yeah, this
Speaker 1: really hits home. DJ grabs one of the magazines and
Speaker 1: points to the woman on the cover. I want to
Speaker 1: look like these models and Danny asks why, and DJ
Speaker 1: tearfully says, because they're beautiful. Danny responds, so are you,
Speaker 1: DJ argues, show me one girl in here with this
Speaker 1: round face and these Charlie Brown cheeks. She slumps down
Speaker 1: on her bed and Danny follows, this is such a
Speaker 1: good performance, Like Candace is knocking it out of the
Speaker 1: park with this. Yeah. So it's just very very powerful.
Speaker 2: And I think that's it's a really powerful scene. And
Speaker 2: it also you know, knowing Candace over the years and
Speaker 2: stuff she struggled with, like it kind of it it
Speaker 2: makes it, like we said, almost harder to watch because
Speaker 2: you're like, this feels.
Speaker 3: Too weirdly personal.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean, Like you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: like you know again, great epist so necessary episode, but
Speaker 2: it was definitely something that was really going on for her.
Speaker 2: So it's like watching it again, you're like, oh god,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine having to like perform that while I'm
Speaker 2: feeling it.
Speaker 1: And it makes me so mad that she went through that,
Speaker 1: and that people did comment on her cheeks and her
Speaker 1: face like shields great, like so many girls were like
Speaker 1: I wish I looked like you. And she felt so
Speaker 1: insecure right about it, And I'm so mad that people
Speaker 1: made her feel that way. You know, that's so wrong,
Speaker 1: and that's that stuff that carries with you for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. You know. It's a very formative age.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it made me mad to watch this
Speaker 1: and it yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Maybe mad, and also did make me appreciate that we
Speaker 2: have come a long way.
Speaker 1: I mean, as.
Speaker 2: You know, screwed up, as some things are, Like, I
Speaker 2: do feel like in some ways we have made progress.
Speaker 2: It's always, you know, three steps forward and a step back.
Speaker 2: But do you feel like in the past ten years
Speaker 2: we've gotten to a much different place. I agree, although
Speaker 2: you know now everybody's on it was empic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about progress, not perfection, and I think we
Speaker 1: have progressed quite a bit about about these conversations that
Speaker 1: we have. Yeah, and yeah, I'd be interested if Fuller
Speaker 1: had tackled this topic or this kind of episode. I'm
Speaker 1: very curious how how they would have done that and
Speaker 1: how it would have been written. Hopefully the adults wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been so clueless about right, the red flags that
Speaker 1: were screaming, you know, in neon lights. But yeah, well
Speaker 1: there was a.
Speaker 2: Lot of neon, so you couldn't tell what was from
Speaker 2: the red flags or what was from people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in this episode, hard to see totally. So Danny
Speaker 1: gently reminds DJ that people come in all shapes and sizes.
Speaker 1: In fact, everybody wishes they could change something about them.
Speaker 1: He admits when he was a kid, I wish I
Speaker 1: could have been more like that guy on The Incredible Hulk.
Speaker 1: DJ asks you wanted to be a big green monster
Speaker 1: with muscles, and Danny clarifies, no, not him, the guy
Speaker 1: that turned into the Hulk. He was just nice and average,
Speaker 1: not too tall, not too skinny. He didn't stick out
Speaker 1: like I thought I did. But then I realized he
Speaker 1: didn't have it so easy either. Every time he lost
Speaker 1: his temper, he had to buy a new shirt. DJ admits,
Speaker 1: you made me smile, but there's still no way I'm
Speaker 1: wearing a bathing suit in front of my friends. Danny
Speaker 1: changes his approach. Why do you like your friends, She shrugs,
Speaker 1: because they're nice and we have fun together. Danny asks,
Speaker 1: not because they all look like models, and DJ shakes
Speaker 1: her head. No. He continues, Maybe that's because, deep down inside,
Speaker 1: you know that how a person looks on the outside
Speaker 1: isn't nearly as important as who they are on the inside.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: DJ can't hide her smile as she nods in agreement. Right.
Speaker 1: Danny takes a seat next to her. I wish you
Speaker 1: could see yourself the way you see your friends. Everybody
Speaker 1: who knows the real DJ knows she's pretty terrific.
Speaker 2: If only we could all see ourselves the way other
Speaker 2: people see I know, yeah, so much easier.
Speaker 1: We're so hard on ourselves, and I see it now,
Speaker 1: like with my own teenagers. You know, it's like they're
Speaker 1: so self content. I'm like, everyone else is just as
Speaker 1: self conscious about themselves as you are about yourself.
Speaker 2: Right, and you're what scrutinized until they get over it,
Speaker 2: They'll net you won't fully understand until you go oh,
Speaker 2: I actually don't care what anyone thinks.
Speaker 3: But it takes a long time to get.
Speaker 1: It takes a very long time.
Speaker 3: It's and it's yeah, and it's super uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: So I always say, like, I hope, I hope that
Speaker 2: people find that comfort and ease in their own skin.
Speaker 1: Sooner rather than later. I've always told my girls, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you get you.
Speaker 2: Get one body, yep, one body, and that's your little
Speaker 2: vessel to carry you through stuff. So treat it well
Speaker 2: and appreciate it, and appreciate the stuff that works well,
Speaker 2: and you know, and and just try and not think
Speaker 2: about all the things that you don't like, because I
Speaker 2: mean we all have that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yep, everybody's got the one thing that
Speaker 1: they're self conscious about. Danny was definitely right in that
Speaker 1: in that respect. Yeah, but yeah, no, that's it's great advice,
Speaker 1: great advice, and it does take a long time, you know.
Speaker 1: The best I say, the best part about being forty
Speaker 1: in my forties is that I don't give a crap.
Speaker 2: Well, people think you don't care, no, not at all,
Speaker 2: they have none, zero.
Speaker 1: Yes. So DJ grins at Danny's words of wisdom and
Speaker 1: pulls him in for a hug. Thanks Dad, I love you,
Speaker 1: and Danny responds, I love you too. That's why I
Speaker 1: want you to take care of yourself. I want you
Speaker 1: to promise me that you're going to eat healthy and
Speaker 1: exercise the right way. She nods, I promise, no more
Speaker 1: crash diets. I'm gonna go to Kimmy's party and have
Speaker 1: fun with my friends. And Danny beams, that's great. Is
Speaker 1: there anything else you want to talk about? DJ responds, yeah,
Speaker 1: is dinner ready? Danny laughs, and he tells her they'll
Speaker 1: go check, and DJ rattles off her order. First, I'll
Speaker 1: start with a salad dressing on the side. Danny ooh's
Speaker 1: at her request and follows her into the kitchen. And
Speaker 1: that is our show. That oh wow, heavy heavy episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heavy episode an episode that Yeah, it was, you know,
Speaker 2: I think we would have been dealt with a lot
Speaker 2: differently today.
Speaker 3: I will be excited to have.
Speaker 2: Our conversation with mel Samuels though, definitely, who has extensive
Speaker 2: knowledge and is a nutritionist and extensive knowledge of eating
Speaker 2: disorders or just disordered eating in general right and keeping
Speaker 2: yourself healthy. And I'm very excited to talk with her
Speaker 2: about it and see like you know, what are her notes?
Speaker 1: What would she yes do differently or how would she
Speaker 1: approach it differently. Yes, we will continue this conversation with her.
Speaker 1: She's going to watch the episode and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk all about it some more. So definitely stay tuned
Speaker 1: for more about this very important episode. Yes, this very
Speaker 1: special episode.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for joining us, and we were
Speaker 2: so excited to continue this conversation with our next episode.
Speaker 1: But thank you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sweaty lumpy bodybuilders. Oh they're sweaty in that they're
Speaker 1: so shiny, yump people on purpose. They love they make
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