Speaker 1: We've talked about this. I think off mic mostly, but
Speaker 1: you know, when you're a parent, you like a lot
Speaker 1: of parenting. You're trying to put yourself in your kid's
Speaker 1: shoes and be like, what was I like when I
Speaker 1: was that age? And how you know, how you know
Speaker 1: if there's a problem or if there's something you know, like,
Speaker 1: what did I feel? And how can I relate to it?
Speaker 1: And try and have the conversation with India abound that
Speaker 1: around that, and then time and time again, I smack
Speaker 1: up against the realization that I'm I'm not raising myself,
Speaker 1: I'm raising a very different person. In fact, I am
Speaker 1: raising mister Wilford Dell pretty explicitly.
Speaker 2: Sorry cigarettes, what's the indies favorite BRANDWS cigarette?
Speaker 1: But it's actually been very helpful and healthy to recognize this,
Speaker 1: and I've even come to you Will. We've had multiple
Speaker 1: conversations where you've given me great advice because you're like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: here's what he's thinking, and you're exactly right, and I'm
Speaker 1: able to like reorient my way of thinking because you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he wants to just get a laugh, just entertain he
Speaker 1: wants to be a voiceover actor, you know, all the
Speaker 1: things like there's time and time again. So I came
Speaker 1: home yesterday. I was traveling and there's a you know,
Speaker 1: like no one's home. I come home to an empty
Speaker 1: house and there's just the normal detritus of parenting and
Speaker 1: what's been happening while I've been gone on the tables
Speaker 1: and everywhere.
Speaker 3: And I find the sheet of detritus.
Speaker 1: I like, you, I find this. I find this sheet
Speaker 1: of paper in INDI's handwriting that's all like crumpled and
Speaker 1: you know, but it's just like this weird list and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this? And I read it and
Speaker 1: you know, the first line is I believe I am funny.
Speaker 1: I am certain I am funny, and.
Speaker 3: It goes on.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is is this? Like a is this some.
Speaker 2: Sort of therapeutic like self help?
Speaker 1: Self help thing? Like he needed to like write down something.
Speaker 1: Did Alex tell him like, you know, you're funny? Let's
Speaker 1: or is this a poem? Like is it you know,
Speaker 1: some sort of I don't know, is it acrosstic?
Speaker 2: What's going on here?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure it out. And then when Indy
Speaker 1: and my wife get home, and you know, if I
Speaker 1: asked them about it, I get the true story, which
Speaker 1: is much more. Oh, I'm raising Wilford Dell. So Indy
Speaker 1: had to write sentences that use that week's spelling words,
Speaker 1: and that week spelling words were believe certain, certain, extremely.
Speaker 2: I am extremely funny.
Speaker 1: Let's see direction measure explodes. So so I'm going to
Speaker 1: read you what Indy wrote for spelling. Okay, I believe
Speaker 1: I am funny. I'm certain I am funny. If you
Speaker 1: look at me, you were looking in the direction of
Speaker 1: a funny person. So I am especially funny. I am
Speaker 1: extremely funny. It's important that you know that I'm funny.
Speaker 1: If you measure how funny I am, I would explode
Speaker 1: piece by piece you find out I'm funny, I'm probably funny.
Speaker 2: With your knowledge, you know I'm funny. Oh. I was like, okay, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: It just gets funnier the more it goes on.
Speaker 2: Like you did you did the assignment, Yeah yeah, yeah, to.
Speaker 3: Say you have to come up with original sentences for.
Speaker 1: Each one, and the only one I agree with this
Speaker 1: probably probably right because it was retracting at the end there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: No. So I have a teacher parent conference this afternoon.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about this. Yes, right, hopefully
Speaker 1: she has a sense of humor. And I find this hysteric.
Speaker 2: Can I ask a very important question?
Speaker 4: Ye were all the words spelled properly exactly perfectly?
Speaker 2: What did you complain about exactly? You know, I mean.
Speaker 1: Liked be brilliant? You did it, You did it and did.
Speaker 4: The assignment, and it's all it's all spelled properly exactly
Speaker 4: and you showed personality in it when which you know which?
Speaker 3: To be honest, a bunch of other kids are probably
Speaker 3: just like and filling out some boring stuff with.
Speaker 1: Words, making kids much more like young writers, strong who
Speaker 1: probably wrote like a very intense.
Speaker 4: Especially I am especially upset, especially especially sad.
Speaker 1: I am extremely.
Speaker 4: I can admit something here that I don't think i've
Speaker 4: ever I know I've never admitted publicly, but I will
Speaker 4: do it here because why not? Uh mister Brooker's class
Speaker 4: fifth grade is when spelling bees really started, and I cheated,
Speaker 4: and now to this day I can't.
Speaker 2: It is I am an awful, awful speller.
Speaker 4: And it's because I used to be able to glance
Speaker 4: down at a little list I had written up and
Speaker 4: I could cheat on my spelling bee. Don't cheat, kids, kids,
Speaker 4: because it's I cannot spell at it's my worst. I
Speaker 4: remember when I passed in my first script to my
Speaker 4: friend George, I said, oh, I apologize for the spelling ers.
Speaker 2: Is before spell check and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I think I typed it out and he wrote, Hey,
Speaker 4: just look at yourself in the mirror and say I'm
Speaker 4: not a.
Speaker 2: Speller, I'm a writer.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, hey, that's a nice way
Speaker 4: of saying you're an idiot.
Speaker 3: Learn.
Speaker 1: It is true that spelling is one of those things
Speaker 1: that just kind of doesn't matter that much anymore.
Speaker 2: No's just what you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's good to know, good to practice.
Speaker 2: But if you don't get it, who cares.
Speaker 4: I like to apologize to mister Brooker, by the way,
Speaker 4: my first male teacher and the first teacher I ever
Speaker 4: saw smoke, who exactly don't tell me teachers can't change
Speaker 4: your life. By the way, I was like, oh, he's
Speaker 4: really enjoying that camel.
Speaker 3: Did you smoke in class?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: God, here do you think I was born?
Speaker 1: I don't even a teacher smoking where students can see them.
Speaker 1: It's pretty I think, I know.
Speaker 4: But Daniel, I think sees me as the teacher smoking
Speaker 4: in class, and then we did nuclear bomb drills like
Speaker 4: under the.
Speaker 3: I don't know, weren't you around when people smoked on planes?
Speaker 2: I did smoke on it. Yeah, plane, Yeah, I smoked
Speaker 2: on planes. I remember shy on the way to Amsterdam.
Speaker 2: Just funniest. Oh, but that's the thing.
Speaker 4: So I'm with Ryder's brother, Shiloh, and it's the funniest
Speaker 4: thing in the world. So You're in a big metal
Speaker 4: tube and half the plane is smoking in the back
Speaker 4: and half isn't.
Speaker 2: That's smoking and non smoking somehow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so I'm smoking a cigarette, no problem, bunch of
Speaker 4: people around me smoking cigarette.
Speaker 2: Shiloh lights a cigar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and people walk back and they're like, what do
Speaker 4: you think you're doing? Like you've taken it at too
Speaker 4: far and he's like, oh sorry, or like puts out
Speaker 4: a cigar and I'm like smoking cigarette, Like.
Speaker 2: How dare you? What are you thinking? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My experience with the smoking section and a plane is
Speaker 1: very very much in line with my father, the King Strong.
Speaker 1: That's how they get your model, which was we saved
Speaker 1: a lot of money my first trip to Europe when
Speaker 1: I was five years old by buying tickets in the
Speaker 1: smoking section. So like My first memories of being in
Speaker 1: a plane are sitting in the smoking section. Will people
Speaker 1: walk back. That's what they used to They would watch
Speaker 1: get to the smoking section to stand down there and smoke. Well,
Speaker 1: me and my brother are just.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I've never been on a plane
Speaker 3: where anybody was able to smoke.
Speaker 4: Really, no, that makes sense because by the time you
Speaker 4: were a little older, you could only do it internationally,
Speaker 4: and that I think that only lasted a year or
Speaker 4: two when I was seventeen or eighteen, and then that
Speaker 4: was done, Like you couldn't do that anymore, because because
Speaker 4: why would you.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean it's like it's awful.
Speaker 3: I do remember smoking and non smoking in restaurants, though,
Speaker 3: I'm being like, yeah, oh yeah, we'd like to sit
Speaker 3: in the non smoking section. And then literally like the
Speaker 3: booth behind you.
Speaker 2: Is part of this.
Speaker 1: Cloud towards you.
Speaker 2: Like what yep?
Speaker 4: I remember that, Oh God, as a smoker, sitting and
Speaker 4: going to airports and you have the the glass box
Speaker 4: with fifty people in it and it's just a giant
Speaker 4: smoke filled.
Speaker 2: Cloud and you're just the last week and it's just oh,
Speaker 2: got him.
Speaker 1: I remember such a huge debate with your brother Greg
Speaker 1: when they outlawed smoking in bars and he was like, no,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. And I was like, no, man, it
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. You should and he was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's why you go to a bar. You go to
Speaker 1: a bar to drink and smoke. So by saying you
Speaker 1: can't smoke in a bar, you're taking away my freedom.
Speaker 1: And we got into it.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I I guess I can hear
Speaker 2: my brother, what's next? No drinking and then no talking?
Speaker 5: I remember, I guarantee that was what I was argument,
Speaker 5: and he was like it was I remember.
Speaker 1: I was like trying to come up with the right metaphor.
Speaker 1: I was our analogy, because he kept saying like, no,
Speaker 1: it's my freedom, it's my body. I can do what
Speaker 1: I want. You choose to come in the space. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's more equivalent to like somebody because of secondhand smoke.
Speaker 1: It's more equivalent like you having the right to like
Speaker 1: walk around with a hammer and keep pounding other people,
Speaker 1: like smashing their knees. Like that's the oh, I have
Speaker 1: the right. You came into this bar, I can hit
Speaker 1: you in the knee with my hammer. What it's a bar.
Speaker 2: In all fairness if the bar is called hammer knee Bar, say.
Speaker 3: Everyone's favorite bar bar. Welcome to Bond Meets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell.
Speaker 3: Welcome to today's episode recap. It is season six, episode eight,
Speaker 3: You're Married, You're Dead. It originally aired November thirteenth, nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety eight. The synopsis to prove he can still fit
Speaker 3: in with the rest of the guys, Corey go to
Speaker 3: a nightclub filled with scantily claud waitresses and loses his
Speaker 3: engagement ring. It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was
Speaker 3: written by Gary H. Miller. Quite a few guest stars
Speaker 3: this week, but before I jump into them, anybody want
Speaker 3: to talk about their overall thoughts? No, no one wants
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling Wheel's gonna hate this episode, but okay,
Speaker 1: I'll let him speak.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's just if it plays on the man women trope
Speaker 1: thing that we've talked about a lot on the show
Speaker 1: that you really just can't stand. So I just assumed
Speaker 1: that because it really does lean into that, that's like
Speaker 1: the whole point of the episode. Yeah, No, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know this episode felt very weird to me
Speaker 1: in that it felt like it felt like somebody had
Speaker 1: written a draft of an episode that was, you know,
Speaker 1: very clearly like Topanga's upset that Corey goes to a
Speaker 1: you know, essentially a strip club or Hooters, and then
Speaker 1: they kind of backed off of that by like having
Speaker 1: Topanga be very understanding and so like, I feel like
Speaker 1: in the rewrite it kind of it's like almost like
Speaker 1: everything the characters are saying is going against the actual plot,
Speaker 1: and so it was just felt kind of forced in
Speaker 1: a way. And then some of the jokes felt rushed.
Speaker 1: I don't know, something felt off. It felt like this
Speaker 1: was a bad tape night for some reason. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened, but like because it is pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Ben's very funny, like Corey being anxious is very funny,
Speaker 1: but it just didn't land in certain parts for me.
Speaker 1: So I kind of want to go back, and like,
Speaker 1: even if we just live with the script as it is,
Speaker 1: I feel like we could have done better as a
Speaker 1: team acting wise, performance wise, it just felt off in
Speaker 1: some way. It's interesting that was directed by McCracken, who
Speaker 1: usually I feel like the performances are so on point
Speaker 1: with him and we are just in it no matter
Speaker 1: how you know what the writing is, And in this one,
Speaker 1: I felt like a lot of us weren't in it.
Speaker 1: Besides the guest cast, I felt like a lot of
Speaker 1: us weren't in it, so that I don't know, that
Speaker 1: was my problem with the episode overall.
Speaker 4: Valid will Yeah, this ranks up there with arguably the
Speaker 4: worst episode i've for me.
Speaker 2: Of the series for every reason.
Speaker 4: It's not just that trope, which is there, but it's
Speaker 4: also the bad you know, I'm sorry, but they're they're
Speaker 4: trying to do a Harley Joey impression with the Yeah
Speaker 4: so Sean's throughout.
Speaker 2: Most of the episode, sure don't.
Speaker 4: He runs in at one point to follow Angela to
Speaker 4: finish a conversation that they never show. Nope, Uh, there
Speaker 4: is the cleavage thing we've seen before. Corey wearing an
Speaker 4: engagement ring is stupid. This was the entire episode I
Speaker 4: thought was idiotic. This was and that there are people,
Speaker 4: Oh they're so harsh in the show.
Speaker 2: I know TV. This was not it.
Speaker 4: This was a bad episode of television all the way around.
Speaker 2: That's my That's what I think this episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I I you want to know what
Speaker 3: makes me the most angry of all of the things.
Speaker 3: I agree with everything both of you said. I agree writer.
Speaker 3: It feels like all of us were not in it,
Speaker 3: and I think it's because at the time we probably
Speaker 3: felt like it was bad. And I, as I met
Speaker 3: in the last episode, when of my soul left my body,
Speaker 3: I can see I am vacant. I can't stand it,
Speaker 3: and I am furious that they put the words well,
Speaker 3: as long as there's women willing to dance like that,
Speaker 3: there will be men to see them. Into Penga's mouth.
Speaker 2: Yes, how dare you?
Speaker 3: How dare you who did not say if that's an
Speaker 3: argument we need to make, because the men in the
Speaker 3: room also want to say, Hey, it's not just us.
Speaker 3: You have to be responsible for it too, since it's
Speaker 3: you know, how could we stop ourselves If that's an argument,
Speaker 3: If that's a point you want to get in there,
Speaker 3: you better find someone else.
Speaker 4: Too.
Speaker 3: Penga's mouth and for Angela and to Panga to have
Speaker 3: that conversation where we are shaming women.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's disgusted.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that that. Now that you say that, I'm like, oh, right,
Speaker 1: they could have easily had Angela be the voice of
Speaker 1: that and to Panga, because when Angela gives that speech
Speaker 1: in the shower, like where she's going into the shower
Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, you must be damaged, that
Speaker 1: actually could have been to Panga's perspective, which would fit
Speaker 1: more with her character. And then maybe she would you know,
Speaker 1: the other woman would be like, no, it's not that
Speaker 1: like that, come with me to Panga. So they could
Speaker 1: have actually kept the storyline it's still been more true
Speaker 1: to Topanga's point of view. Maybe, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: It's oh, this was bad.
Speaker 3: This was just a bad It's a bad.
Speaker 4: Epis is by far the worst episode of season six,
Speaker 4: and I think it's arguably up so far and arguably
Speaker 4: up there for my least favorite episode. There's nothing about
Speaker 4: this episode that I liked. Literally nothing about this episode
Speaker 4: that even the guest stars who the acting was fine. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but that's just the Tarley and joe You can't come
Speaker 4: up with tu with a different trope then literally Harley
Speaker 4: and Joey again.
Speaker 2: That's that's all you're gonna give us.
Speaker 4: I mean, my god, it was yeah, this this was
Speaker 4: this didn't do it for me at all.
Speaker 3: So our guest stars, we have Phil Buckman as Gambling.
Speaker 3: Dan Phil appeared in a ton of nineties TV, including
Speaker 3: Major Dad, Weird Science, and Grace Underfire and movies like
Speaker 3: An American Werewolf in Paris and a Very Brady sequel.
Speaker 3: He is still acting and he was just seen on
Speaker 3: the Pit. And then we have Dana dues Is as
Speaker 3: Eric's waitress. Dues appeared on Step by Step and in
Speaker 3: the sequel to Mannequin Mannequin on the Move.
Speaker 2: Ooh, Mannequin two, this time it's personal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We have Tammy Adrian George who plays waitress, and
Speaker 3: she showed up in a lot of great stuff movies
Speaker 3: like Rome and Michelle's High School Reunion, Starship Troopers and Brats,
Speaker 3: and TV shows like Deep Space nine, Heroes and Big
Speaker 3: Time Rush. She is now a popular pilates coach with
Speaker 3: thirty four years of experience. Dam I mean she was
Speaker 3: doing pilates for years when we take this episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when people were still pronouncing it peelates. That's how
Speaker 4: long ago that pil exactly.
Speaker 3: And then we have Claire Salstrom as Joan. Claire also
Speaker 3: appeared on Silk Stalkings, Seventh Heaven, and she was in
Speaker 3: six episodes of Saved by the Bell. The New Class
Speaker 3: and she recently hosted a web series called People and Pops,
Speaker 3: all about adorable dogs and the people who love them.
Speaker 3: Will could have been on that show.
Speaker 2: I have totally been on that show.
Speaker 3: Why weren't you asked to be on that show?
Speaker 2: That's a really great questions as a dog.
Speaker 1: Because we've discovered that Eric is.
Speaker 4: He could go way a extremely versatile, astoundingly versatile.
Speaker 3: I am probably.
Speaker 2: Look in the direction of.
Speaker 4: My versatility would make me explode.
Speaker 3: Then we have Audrea Tennor as Terry. She's a familiar face.
Speaker 3: She's from movies like The First Wives, Club, Bad Moms,
Speaker 3: and The Artist, as well as a bunch of TV
Speaker 3: shows including Friends, Jag, Greek and Swat. She is still working.
Speaker 2: Does she only do shows with one name?
Speaker 3: Yes, Friends, Jack, Greekins, Okay, that's yeah. Making sure her
Speaker 3: special skills. It's weeding out shows with more than one more.
Speaker 4: Than one I did Boy Meets Worldwides Never Again, Never Again,
Speaker 4: Swatt Jack.
Speaker 3: And then we have Sean Weiss appearing as Louie. This
Speaker 3: was a bit of stunt casting. Sean is globally known
Speaker 3: as Goldberg in the iconic Mighty Ducks films. He also
Speaker 3: played Josh Burnbaum in the cult Disney movie Heavyweights, and
Speaker 3: nowadays he's doing stand up comedy with a lot of
Speaker 3: focus on his sobriety, which he has been publicly speaking
Speaker 3: about since twenty twenty two. He will return as Louie
Speaker 3: later this season.
Speaker 4: He also was starred with me in My first ever
Speaker 4: thing I did on camera, my first ever television show.
Speaker 4: Was was the first guest, the first friend actor I
Speaker 4: ever had was Sean Weiss.
Speaker 2: I was twelve years old.
Speaker 4: He was nine or ten, and we did a cop
Speaker 4: show in New York called True Blue Cops. No can
Speaker 4: you imagine? Yes, we were cops. It was twenty one
Speaker 4: Jump Street. If it was in elementary.
Speaker 2: This is a good pitch. It's not so bad. It's
Speaker 2: eleven Jump Street. No, no, Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he was my first ever buddy on the set
Speaker 4: with Sean Weiss when.
Speaker 2: We were little kids.
Speaker 3: We are interviewing him later, so we'll be sure to
Speaker 3: ask him a few questions about that as well. So
Speaker 3: jumping into our recap, we are in Corey and Sean's dorm.
Speaker 3: The room feels different, a little darker, a little moodier.
Speaker 3: Sean is playing poker with three other guys and he
Speaker 3: confidently places ten bucks into the pile. The most smoldering
Speaker 3: of his competitors, referred to as Gambling Dan, who also
Speaker 3: looks to be about forty years.
Speaker 5: Old, I was like, wow, okay, we are is a
Speaker 5: senior college dude.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, not only is he like Harley and
Speaker 1: everything he says and all of his you know, but
Speaker 1: also just that there's a guy who's clearly just and.
Speaker 2: Even grown up Carly.
Speaker 4: It's just it was strange to see him like this
Speaker 4: because he was a famous eighties and nineties television guest star,
Speaker 4: and he always had this really well known long hair,
Speaker 4: like you looked like Atis from Chili Peppers, and so
Speaker 4: to see I was like, oh, that's right, he got
Speaker 4: his hair off.
Speaker 3: Well. He takes a good look at Sean's face to
Speaker 3: determine his next move. Louie, Gambling Dan's jumpy sidekick, the
Speaker 3: Jay to his silent Bob, keeps chiming in he wants
Speaker 3: to know Gambling Dan's plan. After a deep stare, Dan
Speaker 3: thinks Sean's got nothing and lays his money down to Louie.
Speaker 3: Hype Man's his friend. To Sean, you've got nothing, you loser,
Speaker 3: but Sean reveals his car. Joey's Joey.
Speaker 2: It's like New York, it's a Joey. Yeah, give us
Speaker 2: a different trope, I mean, anything, anything different.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe they really were like, let's just bring
Speaker 1: it back, like let's you know, they wanted to familiar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they wanted it to be comforting, and it's it's a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well Sean has got three kings. Louis gasps, oh, no,
Speaker 3: gambling Dan, This has never happened before. Dan shakes his
Speaker 3: head in shame and admits, nice hand hunter, Maybe I
Speaker 3: did misread you. Sean thanks him, but Sean still lost.
Speaker 3: Gambling Dan reveals a flush Sean is stunned as Dan
Speaker 3: pulls down the pot. He likes the way Sean plays.
Speaker 3: They should hang out more.
Speaker 2: Louis now gambling. Dan's gonna take He is cut off me,
Speaker 2: cut off? He is for the pot.
Speaker 3: Like, do we ever address whether gambling Dan is a
Speaker 3: student or is he just an old dude who comes
Speaker 3: to gambling.
Speaker 2: We never know his name is Jim.
Speaker 4: That's the weird thing is he goes by gambling Dan.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was just no, we never established that.
Speaker 3: So Louis agrees, Yeah, I like you too, Shannie. I
Speaker 3: was rooting for you. Louis asks, maybe you'll join us
Speaker 3: later at Cleavage.
Speaker 2: Quite college club name CLUVA.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember this at all, but I did laugh
Speaker 1: out loud. I was like, and I was like, that's
Speaker 1: funny that I do love the name.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: The best joke of this episode well because yeah.
Speaker 3: In my mind, one of the reasons none of this
Speaker 3: really works is that I kept thinking, like, in any
Speaker 3: other show, this is supposed to be a strip club,
Speaker 3: but the fact that it's called Clavage makes me think
Speaker 3: it's actually supposed to be more like a Hooters.
Speaker 4: Is It's that's exactly what it's supposed to be, and
Speaker 4: it's supposed to be women walking around with cleavage written
Speaker 4: right on the.
Speaker 3: Okay. Just then, Corey opens the door and gasps, what's
Speaker 3: this My best friend in my roommate hosting a poker
Speaker 3: game in our room without me gambling? Dan sneers, it's
Speaker 3: the major. I thought you were out with your virgin
Speaker 3: support group. Corey admits the other guy dropped out.
Speaker 2: Good joke, funny joke.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: On his way out, Dan tells Sean they'll see him tonight,
Speaker 3: and Louis adds and don't bring nobody. As he gestures
Speaker 3: towards Corey. Now alone, Corey asks what's going on at seven?
Speaker 3: Sean casually mentions that a bunch of them are going.
Speaker 2: To a club.
Speaker 3: Corey's hurt. I suppose a bunch of us didn't think
Speaker 3: to invite me either. Sean figured he was busy with Tapanga.
Speaker 3: Cory scoffs, well, Pal, it just so happens. I'm free tonight.
Speaker 3: Topega's busy. Sean says this proves his point. Everything he
Speaker 3: does is based on Tapanga. Corey reminds him he's engaged,
Speaker 3: and Sean admits, sometimes I wonder if that rings not
Speaker 3: through your nose. Corey holds up his hand. It's right here, Pal,
Speaker 3: But perhaps his best friend is secretly jealous of her.
Speaker 3: Sean shakes his head. He's not jealous. It's just whenever
Speaker 3: he's doing something with the guys, and he says, hey,
Speaker 3: I'll bring Corey along. Gambling Dan says, no, not Corey,
Speaker 3: he's married, he's dead. Cory says he doesn't care what
Speaker 3: Gambling Dan thinks, but shortly after, he wonders, why does
Speaker 3: he call me the Major? Sean explains it stands for
Speaker 3: Major wooss. He says, if there was a Whipped magazine,
Speaker 3: you'd be the center forul Corey retorts, first of all,
Speaker 3: there is a Whipped magazine. I didn't subscribe.
Speaker 5: Somehow they found Again, it's funny some of the Corey
Speaker 5: gets some funny jokes in this episode that I mean that,
Speaker 5: like his constant like over confidence and then undermining himself
Speaker 5: is you know great, it's that aspect of it is.
Speaker 1: All the asides are pretty funny, I think.
Speaker 2: So now I have a question, how so we know
Speaker 2: they do the scripts in advance.
Speaker 4: They're obviously they're arcing now well for most seasons, they're
Speaker 4: arcing out what they're supposed to do, and.
Speaker 2: Then they're writing the scripts and they're going from there.
Speaker 4: But we also know that when a joke or something works,
Speaker 4: it tends to appear in the next week script.
Speaker 2: We've seen that before Eric cackling.
Speaker 4: They tried that it was in the next script, so
Speaker 4: they obviously couldn't pad for that, right, So how much
Speaker 4: of this do you think? Maybe one of the reasons
Speaker 4: that it felt so I don't know, disjointed is because
Speaker 4: Ben has been so funny playing the neurotic guy in
Speaker 4: the last few episodes hugely great Cory season that now
Speaker 4: are they rewriting the scripts to write more beats like that?
Speaker 2: And so they're doing it kind of Wow, this is bad.
Speaker 2: You got to rewrite next.
Speaker 4: Week's script as fast as possible, and maybe it's faltering
Speaker 4: a bit because it's like, my god, Ben is killing it.
Speaker 4: Let's make him even more neurotic. Throw that into the script,
Speaker 4: and then the script feels like it's rushed? I mean,
Speaker 4: is that a possibility?
Speaker 3: My My only argument against that point is that whenever
Speaker 3: we've had the writers on and we talk about it,
Speaker 3: it doesn't actually seem like the scripts are written in advance.
Speaker 3: It seems like they throw around ideas and they come
Speaker 3: up with something and then two people, you know, where
Speaker 3: one person goes and kind of like puts a great
Speaker 3: outline together and then it's it's really done.
Speaker 1: My feeling is when you said that, Will I was like,
Speaker 1: oh right, this was this sounds like a pitch for
Speaker 1: when now we're in college and Corey's engaged. What can
Speaker 1: we create stories out of that? And he was like,
Speaker 1: oh what, what's what?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: How can we have a situation where it's it's in
Speaker 1: conflict to be engaged in to be in college, and
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, he goes out to the he
Speaker 1: goes out with the guys, and because he's married or
Speaker 1: because he's in it's it's in conflict with that, and
Speaker 1: that seems like a good idea, but then you get
Speaker 1: into the weeds of it and you're like, Topanga probably
Speaker 1: would be fine with that, Sean would like all the
Speaker 1: characters don't kind of fit that like situation that well.
Speaker 1: So that's why I feel like they're writing against the
Speaker 1: very plot that we're living in, and that's why it
Speaker 1: just feels like, you know, especially the second half of
Speaker 1: this episode, I was like, there's no problem here, like
Speaker 1: Topanga going like the like the anticipation that Topanga's going
Speaker 1: to show up at the strip club or the at Clevage.
Speaker 1: I was like, she already said it's fine, there's no
Speaker 1: problem here. So then they have to create the like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the ring.
Speaker 3: And then it's like but that.
Speaker 4: Even that, like why would she be you know, but
Speaker 4: a lot of it didn't make sense. The joke was
Speaker 4: are you going to tell Topanga you're going? And he's like, well,
Speaker 4: I've the tied of my hands.
Speaker 2: But then he doesn't tell her he's going, so then
Speaker 2: he has to tell her later. But you just said
Speaker 2: you were going to tell her. Just none of it
Speaker 2: made sense.
Speaker 3: I mean also the tushy dance.
Speaker 2: Oh don't don't that never happened that I'm I yes,
Speaker 2: that is being bleethed.
Speaker 3: Just all right, I'll bleeth it with you. I'd like
Speaker 3: to bleef this whole episode. I did bleef this episode
Speaker 3: before it aired.
Speaker 2: Zero memory, zero nothing, I remember none of this.
Speaker 3: Uh, Sean smirks, I'll tell him that tonight. At Cleavage,
Speaker 3: Corey's jaw drops club Cleavage, where the women parade around
Speaker 3: in little outfits that barely cover their most private of situations,
Speaker 3: and Angela's letting you go. Sean reminds him he's not
Speaker 3: with Angela anymore, but Corey says he is. Sean stands firm,
Speaker 3: I am not gentle. Corey argues that he should be.
Speaker 3: Sean says, even if I was, if I want to
Speaker 3: go someplace, i'd go. Corey decides, well, I want to
Speaker 3: go to Sean laughs at the thought. Corey matthews At Cleavage,
Speaker 3: you blush at the beach, Corey gets serious. Listen, I
Speaker 3: don't want to be excluded from all these things just
Speaker 3: because I'm engaged. But Sean feels it's deeper than that.
Speaker 3: He broke up with Angela, but Corey is still with Tapanka.
Speaker 3: They're just in completely different situations. Now. Corey doesn't care.
Speaker 3: He demands, you tell gambling Dan that the major is going.
Speaker 3: Sean wonders what he'll tell his fiance. Corey declares, I
Speaker 3: will tell her what I want to tell her when
Speaker 3: I choose to tell her, or I will tell her
Speaker 3: or I won't. It's all up to me. Sean raises
Speaker 3: an eyebrow. So you're gonna tell her, Corey shrugs, it's
Speaker 3: out of my hands.
Speaker 2: Did you guys see the bus?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 3: I was still busy thinking about how disgusting it was
Speaker 3: that you put your filthy shoes all right on top
Speaker 3: of your bed. I watched you do that, and I
Speaker 3: was so grossed out.
Speaker 2: The only thing in character for Sean in this entire episode. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's true.
Speaker 1: We never noticed the details of the production design.
Speaker 2: That they were putting the bus. It follows me everywhere.
Speaker 2: That is so cool.
Speaker 4: I love that the salary poster should be somewhere. It
Speaker 4: should always be yeah, the salary poster should be somewhere.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well, when we get our tattoos, it'll go
Speaker 3: with us forever.
Speaker 2: Don't don't joke, you joke, you're playing with my emotions.
Speaker 2: You'll never do that.
Speaker 3: We're at the boys apartment. Rachel's in the kitchen typing
Speaker 3: at her computer. The guys try their best to quietly
Speaker 3: and quickly sneak past her, but without glancing in their direction.
Speaker 3: She asks, where are you going? Jack nervously responds, you
Speaker 3: have no right to judge us. I have to point
Speaker 3: it out. It's the first time we get a storyline
Speaker 3: that isn't just about you two competing.
Speaker 2: For her effects, for her, for affection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they it took eight episodes.
Speaker 2: And they're finally doing it.
Speaker 3: But they finally gave her something. They gave her a
Speaker 3: little bit of backstory, something that's going on for her
Speaker 3: in her school, her own goal. We should see her
Speaker 3: being studious and smart.
Speaker 2: So Mainlyngratua in this episode. But she was good.
Speaker 4: Yes, I thought she was one of the people that
Speaker 4: stood out in this episode frankly as grounded and real
Speaker 4: and yating the beats where the rest of us weren't.
Speaker 2: And it was I thought she was very good in
Speaker 2: this episode.
Speaker 3: Frank completely agree with you. She is a very high
Speaker 3: point for what is a bleefed episode for me.
Speaker 2: Yep agreed.
Speaker 3: Jack nervously responds, you have no right to judge us.
Speaker 3: Eric adds, Yeah, why are you asking so many questions?
Speaker 3: We're not hounding you about what you're doing. She responds,
Speaker 3: I'm doing a midterm paper on the influence of women
Speaker 3: on male bonding. Eric concludes, there isn't any males. We're
Speaker 3: bonding on this planet long before women arrived. Rachel sighs, Oh,
Speaker 3: this paper is worth half my grade. I've been praying
Speaker 3: to come up with a specific case that I can observe,
Speaker 3: but so far I haven't. Eric gets defensive again. Look,
Speaker 3: we're just going out, Okay, We're men doing what men do.
Speaker 3: Quite frankly, I'm tired of all the scrutiny, the badgering,
Speaker 3: the nitpicking. It's gotta stop. Jack as is back, don't
Speaker 3: ask us when we're coming back either, because, quite frankly,
Speaker 3: it's none of your business. Eric agrees, Because we're in
Speaker 3: college now, you're not the boss of us. The boys
Speaker 3: high five in the doorway and Eric tuns are on
Speaker 3: their way out, nag nag nag, neg nag nag nag.
Speaker 2: They slam the door and a smile, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Is is the connecting thread?
Speaker 4: Then, between the A story and the B story, men
Speaker 4: have an assumption of what women are going to think
Speaker 4: about their life, when in reality, if they just sat
Speaker 4: down and spoke to the woman, they would realize that
Speaker 4: the women really aren't thinking what they think they're thinking.
Speaker 2: Is that what it's supposed to be?
Speaker 3: Good question? I hadn't thought of that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Her paper is on the effect that women have on
Speaker 4: male bile bonding, which is a weird subject, okay, but
Speaker 4: it's also like she doesn't care. Rachel's not going to
Speaker 4: care that they're going to Hooters for dinner.
Speaker 3: But they care, which is the point of her paper,
Speaker 3: which is like, you know, if you're if you're just
Speaker 3: with your bros and then one of them brings their.
Speaker 2: Girlfriend, it changes the whole dynamic.
Speaker 3: Changes the whole dynamic. You're like, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: the way I would normally talk. I don't want to
Speaker 3: share that story about the girl I met last week,
Speaker 3: because like I would talk about it with my bros
Speaker 3: differently than I would with a woman present, and so
Speaker 3: same thing that, like, because if if it's no big
Speaker 3: deal for all saul to be at club Clavage, why
Speaker 3: doesn't Corey just invite to Panga, I'm going to Clavage tonight?
Speaker 3: Or like why wouldn't he and Tapega on a date
Speaker 3: night go to Clavage? But it's because Tapega wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to be at a place.
Speaker 4: Like that, right, But shouldn't that be the story then
Speaker 4: shouldn't they be saying shouldn't they just be walking out,
Speaker 4: not trying to sneak past her and they're like, Hey,
Speaker 4: we're going to Clavage and she's like, oh great, I'd
Speaker 4: actually like to join you, And that then changes their
Speaker 4: well because.
Speaker 3: You know she's not gonna like it, and you don't
Speaker 3: want to feel judged, You don't want even it's a
Speaker 3: little bit like she's your mom, I don't let's let's
Speaker 3: sneak out without her knowing where we're going, because if
Speaker 3: you tell her where we're going, then she's going to say,
Speaker 3: why would you guys go there? And then we're gonna
Speaker 3: feel bad about it, and then we're not gonna have
Speaker 3: as much fun as we would if we didn't have
Speaker 3: that judgment on us.
Speaker 1: But then there's also the other thing, which is the
Speaker 1: effect that the women at Clavage have on male bonding,
Speaker 1: which is a positive influence, right, Right, It's like there's
Speaker 1: other types of women to make male bonding possible. It's
Speaker 1: like we're not just going to play poker with our
Speaker 1: bros and talk about women. We're going to go ogle yeah,
Speaker 1: naked women, and those women have an influence, right. So
Speaker 1: so there's there's there's two different types of women. There's
Speaker 1: the virgins and the whores, and and they both affect
Speaker 1: male bonding, one negatively and one positively. None the twains
Speaker 1: shall ever meet, right, There's no other there's no other
Speaker 1: way that women can affect male bonding. The show is
Speaker 1: that there's only there's moms, perfect moms and perfect wives
Speaker 1: who would never be scantily clad, and and and they
Speaker 1: intrude on male bonding. And then there's women who are
Speaker 1: willing to be scantily cloud who positively affect male bonding.
Speaker 1: And and they have to be two different types of women.
Speaker 1: They can't be the same, they really can't. It's like
Speaker 1: the most horrifying image to Panga in the Cleavage thing,
Speaker 1: because that would threaten this world view that destabilizes everything.
Speaker 1: She very weird.
Speaker 2: It is weird.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, well that was a great question writer, Thank
Speaker 3: you for putting that in perspective for us. They slam
Speaker 3: the door and a smile crosses Rachel's face. She looks
Speaker 3: at the sky.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Jack and Eric are now in the hallway talking about
Speaker 3: Rachel's nerve, trying to make them feel guilty about going out.
Speaker 3: Eric blames it on a woman's intuition. They sense when
Speaker 3: a man's about to do something fun and they try
Speaker 3: to spoil it. Jack confidently agrees it ain't gonna work
Speaker 3: on us, but when the elevator doors open, his demeanor
Speaker 3: quickly changes. Maybe we shouldn't go, but Eric pushes him
Speaker 3: into the elevator anyway. And then we are at Club Cleavage. Uh.
Speaker 3: Sean and Corey enter and see girls walking around in
Speaker 3: sports bras and tiny shorts. This is the boy meets
Speaker 3: world version of an upscale Hooters. Sean checks out the ladies.
Speaker 3: That's something then you don't see every day. Corey innocently remarks, yeah, look,
Speaker 3: an audi, you know if the doctor had just tied
Speaker 3: a neat or not. Sean cuts him off before we
Speaker 3: get to the guys, could you age up about thirty years?
Speaker 3: I was trying to understand that. Are you calling him
Speaker 3: a child?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's talking about out.
Speaker 3: As opposed to calling I thought, maybe, okay, immature. I
Speaker 3: was thinking, maybe, isn't it the opposite that he's like
Speaker 3: an old man and you want to you know, like
Speaker 3: in my mind it's like we think of Corey as
Speaker 3: being the old dude, right, But.
Speaker 4: That then he should have come in and been like,
Speaker 4: my god, she's gonna catch her death wearing that sweater.
Speaker 2: Does she need to start? My god? Exactly.
Speaker 3: Then Louis spots Corey and shouts out, hey, look it's
Speaker 3: mister tapanga Lawrence gambling. Dan, who has one of the
Speaker 3: waitresses sitting on his lap, salutes Corey.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Major. Corey responds, you're not nice. Dan sarcastically asks if
Speaker 3: this is too much action him. Corey's angry. You didn't
Speaker 3: get enough love as a child, did you. Louie encourages
Speaker 3: Dan to beat him up. Dan refuses, I'm sure his
Speaker 3: wife does that for him already. Corey reminds everyone he
Speaker 3: isn't married. He's engaged. He points to his ring finger,
Speaker 3: so nuts to you.
Speaker 2: What man wears an engagement ring? Is that a thing
Speaker 2: that I just don't know about? No, thank you?
Speaker 3: And I actually love the idea that Cory, the old
Speaker 3: man who's obsessed with marriage, would love the idea of
Speaker 3: a ring in this situation. For this episode, however, it
Speaker 3: should have been mentioned way earlier when he's talking about
Speaker 3: the ring with Sean. Sean could have been the person
Speaker 3: to say, who what man even wears an engagement ring?
Speaker 3: And for Corey to say it's so pretty? Why will
Speaker 3: they not have?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: For him to acknowledge it with Sean something where we
Speaker 3: get himself and he wanted it? Yeah, yeah, like why
Speaker 3: does why is she the only one who gets to
Speaker 3: wear one? Or for purposes of the story, it doesn't
Speaker 3: seem completely out of character that Tapega would believe, well,
Speaker 3: why am I the only one who has to wear
Speaker 3: a symbol of my relationship?
Speaker 2: If we are assess me own me, we belong to
Speaker 2: each other, and.
Speaker 3: If you would like for me to wear a ring,
Speaker 3: would let's get your ring as well and we will
Speaker 3: both just wear rings, and then Corey could have the
Speaker 3: thing of like but nobody else wears them and it
Speaker 3: really separates me, like then Topega would have had some
Speaker 3: sort of hand in this where he could have felt like,
Speaker 3: this thing she asked me to do, well, it makes sense,
Speaker 3: does separate me and ostracize me from the guys. But
Speaker 3: in this situation it's even weirder because she goes, you're
Speaker 3: the one who said she wanted it, So it's just
Speaker 3: another thing that just kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: could have been, could have been more in character many
Speaker 3: different ways, and and and just wasn't. Sean knows he's
Speaker 3: not helping himself. Dan asks what kind of a guy?
Speaker 3: Where's an engagement ring? Sean tries to explain, Corey's just
Speaker 3: not like everybody else, He's unique. He marches to the
Speaker 3: beat of a different drummer.
Speaker 1: Which is finally Sean, yes, I always felt about Corey,
Speaker 1: which is like, I love this guy. I was like,
Speaker 1: why Sean would ever be insecure about Corey is just
Speaker 1: driving me insane. It's like, Sean should be insecure about himself.
Speaker 1: That's great, that speaks to going to college and all
Speaker 1: of this, But to put to put it on Cory
Speaker 1: like he does in so many scenes so far in
Speaker 1: this season is really just not cool.
Speaker 2: No, Sean is completely different, and I know why and
Speaker 2: we'll get to it.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll get to it in this episode. I know
Speaker 4: what they were going for. It's it's partially that you've
Speaker 4: checked out. You can see it, like both you and Daniel.
Speaker 4: You can see the deadness zombie. I think that is
Speaker 4: part of it, but there's also they address it here
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god, you've got to
Speaker 4: be kidding me.
Speaker 2: But that's what they're going for.
Speaker 3: Okay, Louis says, what does that mean? I hate it
Speaker 3: when people say crap. I don't get Sean simply states
Speaker 3: he's a good guy, but Corey says he doesn't need
Speaker 3: Sean to defend him. Dan smirks, well he's here. That's
Speaker 3: a start. Then a new waitress makes her way up
Speaker 3: to the table and notices Corey right away. She sits
Speaker 3: on his lap. You're new here. I haven't seen you before.
Speaker 3: Corey immediately looks at the ceiling, avoiding eye contact with
Speaker 3: the girl or her body. I'd like a hamburger and
Speaker 3: French fries. Sean wonders why he's looking at the ceiling,
Speaker 3: and Corey explains, because I'm uncomfortable is why. Sean pushes
Speaker 3: his head to face the girl. Cory smiles at her.
Speaker 2: Hi, how you doing? Did you notice?
Speaker 4: So he's not looking at her, but his arms around
Speaker 4: her waist and he's holding on to her waist right.
Speaker 4: You figured it would be like he'd have his head,
Speaker 4: but he's not. He literally has his hand around her,
Speaker 4: is holding her, but he's not looking at her.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, that he shouldn't. He shouldn't
Speaker 2: have been touching her in anyway.
Speaker 4: It would be fun if he's just like exactly, but
Speaker 4: he's got his arm around her waist and he's like
Speaker 4: his hands on her hip, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 2: That's that's not what they were going for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dan notices, I think she likes you major because,
Speaker 3: as we know, every woman who has ever seen Corey
Speaker 3: likes hims. Corey wants to get to know him. Corey
Speaker 3: gets bashful. She doesn't like me, she doesn't even know me.
Speaker 3: The girl giggles at Corey, I do like you. She
Speaker 3: asks Danny where he's been hiding him and Danny, by
Speaker 3: the way, Danny they even named the Harley character.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's right.
Speaker 3: Dan explains he doesn't get out much. He's married. Corey laughs, No,
Speaker 3: I'm not married. Don't listen to him. I'm just here
Speaker 3: for a hamburger and possibly the beverage of my choice.
Speaker 3: The girl asks, if you're not married, why are you
Speaker 3: wearing a ring. He explains it's an engagement ring, and
Speaker 3: the girl figures it out. Oh, this is a bachelor party.
Speaker 1: Corey, you know, probably could have just ended there, because
Speaker 1: I was like, the girls descending on him is enough
Speaker 1: of an image. But we got to get Eric in there,
Speaker 1: so we have like all this extra reiteration of the
Speaker 1: same things we've already just talked about. Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was rolling my eyes. Wow, a shoehorning this plot.
Speaker 3: Like its Corey tries to correct Dan, but the waitress
Speaker 3: has already alerted her co workers. We got a bachelor party.
Speaker 3: They all come running over and yank Corey out of
Speaker 3: his seat and tickle him right.
Speaker 4: Well, you've never been to a bachelor party, Danielle, In
Speaker 4: all fairness, lots of tickling, Yeah, if you've never never
Speaker 4: been in the tickle circle, come on, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: come on.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well what I'm you're on?
Speaker 2: You're on warning? What am I am crossing? Am I
Speaker 2: crossing that line?
Speaker 3: You're you're all ready to say one of those things
Speaker 3: that you say, well, then I go now I can't done.
Speaker 3: Hear it?
Speaker 2: So like uglies Daniel's favorite and the tickle circle. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have a whole body chills right now
Speaker 3: from how closed out I am from both of you.
Speaker 2: Ub it, just stuve it.
Speaker 3: He has to shout, girls, this isn't necessary. You're all
Speaker 3: wonderful and special in your own individual ways, but you're
Speaker 3: smothering with me with your He glances at one of
Speaker 3: the girl's chests. Oh cleavage, Now I get it. Sean
Speaker 3: encourages him to enjoy. It's just fun. Corey agrees, then
Speaker 3: asks their waitress what bad could come from it? Right
Speaker 3: to panga and then suddenly the waitress is replaced with
Speaker 3: tapanga and tiny shorts and a crop top. He points
Speaker 3: and screams, engaged wrong, must poke eyes out.
Speaker 2: Remember this. You don't remember doing this at all?
Speaker 3: One bit.
Speaker 2: I know I remember it either.
Speaker 3: No, And I think I think for me it's probably
Speaker 3: blocked out because I was probably well, I was probably
Speaker 3: so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: No with on it.
Speaker 2: One of the things you wish you saved from the
Speaker 2: set of all the things you could have had the things.
Speaker 3: I look back and think about, uh bringing that home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't trade that out for one of my home
Speaker 3: sports bras.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: The real waitress watches on with horror as Corey grabs
Speaker 3: a fork and brings it close to his eyes. Thankfully,
Speaker 3: Sean stops him.
Speaker 2: I poking bad.
Speaker 3: If Dan sees you mail, there's no way you or
Speaker 3: I will ever be able to repair the damage to
Speaker 3: your reputation. Corey wins. But maybe he's right. Maybe I
Speaker 3: am just mister tapango Lawrence. Sean says, Will you just
Speaker 3: take the ring off? It's strangling you. Corey looks over
Speaker 3: at Dan and Louie hitting it off with yet another woman,
Speaker 3: So he does it. Corey takes off his ring. The
Speaker 3: two walk back to their table, and Corey takes one
Speaker 3: last look at his ring and places it on the
Speaker 3: napkin dispenser.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't all right.
Speaker 1: This is also the end of a scene like yeah, weird,
Speaker 1: Like we've gone through that, but then we have to
Speaker 1: have the extra beats.
Speaker 3: We need to take an eleven page scene.
Speaker 2: It takes off the ring and puts it out. You
Speaker 2: put it in your pocket, everybody to.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows when you are at a clavage place, you
Speaker 3: put your ring in your bit. My god, but he's
Speaker 3: weighing out some second thoughts. I don't know about this.
Speaker 3: I want to be one of the guys, but if
Speaker 3: I have to take my ring off, I don't feel
Speaker 3: like I belong here. I don't feel like you belong here.
Speaker 3: I don't even feel like Eric belongs here. Right on cue,
Speaker 3: we hear Eric yell from one of the nearby tables, Hey, nurse,
Speaker 3: how about some show? Corey admits Eric probably does belong there.
Speaker 3: Over at Jack at Eric's table, Jack admits, I don't
Speaker 3: know why we thought we had to sneak out. This
Speaker 3: is just a harmless college town gathering place. Eric agrees,
Speaker 3: but he's convinced Rachel would see this as a low
Speaker 3: life den of iniquity. Then a waitress comes and sits
Speaker 3: on Eric's lap. He casually orders a tuna on white
Speaker 3: with the corners cut off and served in triangles the
Speaker 3: way his mommy does. The girl nods without hesitation, and
Speaker 3: he thanks Tiffany on her way to the kitchen. Eric
Speaker 3: returns to Jack, she'd think this place would be frequented
Speaker 3: by the degenerate scum of the earth you know. On cue,
Speaker 3: Corey walks up.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello. This next speech of Cory is my favorite
Speaker 2: thing of the episode. See it didn't say anything, but
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 3: Eric asks what he's doing here, and Corey questions him,
Speaker 3: why does it strike you on that?
Speaker 4: Why as.
Speaker 3: Such as this?
Speaker 2: He's the best, the best?
Speaker 3: Eric asks if the panga knows he's here, and Corey
Speaker 3: plays it off, what does the matter and with the
Speaker 3: guys tonight? Then he turns the question on them. Does
Speaker 3: Rachel know you guys are here?
Speaker 1: Why would Rachel have any ask that the.
Speaker 2: Girl you met once, who's our roommate?
Speaker 3: Like really, Jack laughs, we don't care what Rachel thinks.
Speaker 3: She's just our roommate. Eric wonders why he'd even ask
Speaker 3: a question like that, and Corey admits, well, she looks
Speaker 3: surprised to see you. And then it's revealed that Rachel
Speaker 3: is sitting at the table to them.
Speaker 1: Surprised to see them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good question.
Speaker 1: She literally came there seek them out and she doesn't
Speaker 1: look surprised and studying them. So why is Corey's lyne
Speaker 1: to review her? Because she looks surprised, should be because
Speaker 1: she's over there. Look, you know, fine, Like what.
Speaker 3: Because she so she followed them right here, but this
Speaker 3: is the first time we're getting to see what her
Speaker 3: reaction is to finding out where they went. So even
Speaker 3: though it doesn't make sense story wise, she's surprised, like
Speaker 3: I cannot believe my two. She is having the judgment
Speaker 3: of them that they're afraid she's going to have, which
Speaker 3: is like, you guys came to cleavage, but.
Speaker 1: That's not when they reveal her. She's just kind of
Speaker 1: looking at them and writing notes, and.
Speaker 4: It's like, well, they also didn't see the six foot
Speaker 4: tall redhead on this at the seats.
Speaker 2: Away from the table.
Speaker 1: Remember the last episode, you were like, yeah, Magice coming home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, what the Yeah.
Speaker 3: She greets them and asks if they're having a good time.
Speaker 3: Jack Wins is not, and Eric finishes his sentence anymore,
Speaker 3: and then we're back in the dorm hallway. Corey and
Speaker 3: Sean are walking to their room and Sean has a
Speaker 3: big smile on his face. I think tonight was good
Speaker 3: for both of us. It really puts you over the
Speaker 3: hump with the guys. Corey breaks it to him, this
Speaker 3: may come as a bombshell, but that guy Dan is
Speaker 3: a jerk, Sean defends him.
Speaker 2: Jerk is normal.
Speaker 3: This is what single guys do in college.
Speaker 1: Jerk is normal.
Speaker 2: Is normal. This and this is the thing that they're
Speaker 2: trying to show about Sean. And this is the change.
Speaker 4: If you're not in a committed relationship, you end up
Speaker 4: with the wrong people, the wrong friends.
Speaker 2: You're a worse friend to Corey. You're worst. You are
Speaker 2: going down the wrong path because you are single.
Speaker 1: You should not have broken up with Angela, and.
Speaker 4: That's happening because he did. You're a worse friend to me.
Speaker 4: You're hanging out with jerks. You're lying to Angela.
Speaker 3: Bad women bad.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, because you're single, you are bad. Look what's
Speaker 4: happening you, Sean. It's like drums, It's like they're going,
Speaker 4: look what Look at the path you're headed downtation because
Speaker 4: you broke up with Angela.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, look what's happening to your life?
Speaker 1: And I was into a stable relationship, get back into
Speaker 1: that's the fold of.
Speaker 4: Because look what's happening with people's like like Dan, and
Speaker 4: you're going to places like you don't belong there either, Sean.
Speaker 2: He says at one time, like.
Speaker 4: It's a restaurant and so it's just it's so I
Speaker 4: was sitting there going like this is this is absolutely
Speaker 4: absurd where you're in college and you're single, you broke
Speaker 4: up with your girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Look what's happening to your life?
Speaker 3: You go down.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like, oh my god. It was so blatant
Speaker 2: in this episode.
Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, I can't believe this is the
Speaker 4: thread they're going with this Without Angela, he might as
Speaker 4: well be doing Heroin right now, Like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And that's just to set up what I'm sure will happen.
Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the episode is like
Speaker 1: miserable without Angela. His whole life is falling apart. He
Speaker 1: needs stability.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was that when it was just so blatant
Speaker 4: in this one, where it was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: you've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 3: Corey questions, so is this what you broke up with
Speaker 3: Angela for? To hang out with guys like that?
Speaker 2: This is what you want?
Speaker 3: Sean clarifies, No, I want you to let me live.
Speaker 3: I'm my own man now and I don't have to
Speaker 3: answer to anybody. I go wherever I want to go.
Speaker 3: And then to Panga and Angela walk up giggling amongst themselves.
Speaker 3: Angela asks where they've been, and Sean quickly answers movie,
Speaker 3: Babe too, pig in the city, like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: we talk about it to Penga pouts Corey, you and
Speaker 3: I were supposed to see that together. We cut to Corey,
Speaker 3: who has nervously pressed himself up against the wall. Utterly speechless.
Speaker 3: Sewan assures her that he'll go again. It was a
Speaker 3: great movie, but he can't stop rambling it's funnier than
Speaker 3: those mouses. But Corey calmly jumps in. We went to clevage.
Speaker 3: Sean finishes his line mentioning he doesn't like little pink pigs.
Speaker 3: Angela crosses her arms with no, I.
Speaker 1: Say that, you know how I like little pink pigs,
Speaker 1: which is a surprising little joke of.
Speaker 3: Sean finishes is lie, mentioning he does like little pink pigs.
Speaker 3: Angela crosses her arms. You should because you are one.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, because you went to a restaurant.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're a single guy who went to a restaurant.
Speaker 2: You're awful.
Speaker 3: Well, like we were talking about when we're talking about
Speaker 3: later at the scene in the bathroom, this the idea
Speaker 3: that there are some people women men. Whoever, some people
Speaker 3: who just feel like going you can go anywhere to eat.
Speaker 3: You're not going there because the wings are so good.
Speaker 3: You're going there because you want to flirt with a
Speaker 3: woman and have her sit on your lap, and you
Speaker 3: want to stare at a scantily clad person.
Speaker 2: That makes you and that makes you a bad person.
Speaker 3: There are that is just there are people who feel
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: Have you had the wings at Hooters? No, they're phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Okay, so but ain't you seemingly like where my brain goes?
Speaker 1: There is like then the woman who defends the place, right,
Speaker 1: the woman who comes out of the shower and oh,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: She can't be a waitress there.
Speaker 1: She has to be the cook because if she were
Speaker 1: a waitress there.
Speaker 3: She exactly And when she came to that let her out.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: nuanced point to destabilize this this divide.
Speaker 3: But I make so much money. I don't have a
Speaker 3: single I don't have I don't have any student loans.
Speaker 3: I pay them all off and to bang wuld be like, great,
Speaker 3: thank you, this is this is a good perspective. Let
Speaker 3: me go with you. No, she's a cook.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is so intense all the wa Yes.
Speaker 3: Sean tries to tell Angela it's just a restaurant. She
Speaker 3: walks to her door, and Sean keeps pleading, hello, drama queen,
Speaker 3: we're not going out anymore. Remember we're just friends. Angela
Speaker 3: gives him a fake smile. You're right, you can go
Speaker 3: wherever you want, and with that, Sean follows her into
Speaker 3: her room.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see that scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Shut no, I meant, is it not? In this episode?
Speaker 3: We never follow up?
Speaker 4: Calls her a drama queen. There in the middle of
Speaker 4: the fight. He follows into the room, and that's just
Speaker 4: the end.
Speaker 3: And then that's just the yep, copy that, and then
Speaker 3: we're out in the hall now alone. Topega asks Corey
Speaker 3: can we go inside and talk about this? Corey nervously responds, no,
Speaker 3: I'd prefer to talk out here because the light is
Speaker 3: so lovely and you look so lovely, So I think
Speaker 3: we're gonna stay right out here. And then there's a
Speaker 3: slight optical flip where the boys door flies open and
Speaker 3: to Panga flings Corey into the bedroom. All these physically
Speaker 3: domineering women He admits or here is fine now inside
Speaker 3: she simply asks, why going back to your point, whell
Speaker 3: that we never see that scene with them? Why doesn't
Speaker 3: Sean just say, hey, drama queen, we're not going out anymore.
Speaker 3: And then she goes into the room and closes the
Speaker 3: door and he goes up the hallway and their argument
Speaker 3: isn't dissolved.
Speaker 4: That's it. I do.
Speaker 3: I know that you want us, they want us to
Speaker 3: be alone in the hallway, but like, why do you
Speaker 3: have to go into the room and then we never
Speaker 3: know what happens with that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Also, I felt like Sean calling Angel drama queen as
Speaker 4: kind of like a dude term was was really out
Speaker 4: of character and rude.
Speaker 2: And that's the show. She's not in your life anymore.
Speaker 2: You're turning into a whole different person.
Speaker 3: It's so it's so unnecessary. He could have easily just
Speaker 3: been like, I don't know why you're hurt, We're not
Speaker 3: even a couple Like that alone is fine to call
Speaker 3: her a drama queen. I don't understand Sean it.
Speaker 1: Also, I mean, I think they're trying to set up
Speaker 1: with the last beat of the episode where it's like
Speaker 1: Sean is missing Angela and he just can't admit it
Speaker 1: to himself. But like, that's even stronger if you see
Speaker 1: him being like, I'm fine, cool, yeah, let her do
Speaker 1: her own thing. And then the last bead is like,
Speaker 1: actually I am a little bothered by this, but instead
Speaker 1: it's like got to have it both ways all the time.
Speaker 1: It's yeah.
Speaker 3: So te Benga simply asks why, and Corey raises his
Speaker 3: voice before you say anything, I just want to state
Speaker 3: that as a man, I am entitled to certain rights
Speaker 3: and privileges. Mm hmm to Pega knots I understand. Corey
Speaker 3: continues his declaration. So, as a man, I went with
Speaker 3: other men and did man things because I do not
Speaker 3: want to be thought of by those men as how
Speaker 3: do I put this delicately? To Panga answers whipped, Corey shouts,
Speaker 3: you could at least let me say it.
Speaker 1: Is a very funny idea that she finishes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wish he hadn't played it like yelling, But
Speaker 6: if you'd just been, like, if you just let me say,
Speaker 6: it would have been even funny, because I know, you know,
Speaker 6: if you'd played it whipped basically, it would have been
Speaker 6: but this is this is a joke.
Speaker 4: This is the joke they've been going through that They've
Speaker 4: been doing different versions of this. I mean she she
Speaker 4: proposed then she was going to put the ring on.
Speaker 4: He's like, can I at least put the ring on
Speaker 4: your finger? She is now talking and finishing his sentences.
Speaker 4: They are setting it up to where, you know, she
Speaker 4: obviously quote unquote where's the pants in the family, which
Speaker 4: is such a stupid thing, but it's yeah, it's weird dynamic.
Speaker 3: To Pega's eye, I'm not mad at you, Corey guesses,
Speaker 3: but you're disappointed to Penga clarifies, I understand your need
Speaker 3: to be one of the guys. The only thing that's
Speaker 3: important to me is that we are always honest with
Speaker 3: each other. Okay, Corey isn't sure what to think. You're
Speaker 3: not just being understanding now, but actually harboring bitterness and
Speaker 3: resentment that'll fester over the years until one day you
Speaker 3: hack me apart in my sleep. Topenga says, no, that
Speaker 3: would be wrong. Corey nervously laughs it off. I mean,
Speaker 3: you don't go around hacking people. Tapega calmly shakes her head. No,
Speaker 3: you don't, Corey wants some more clarification. You think of
Speaker 3: me as my own man, so I can do anything
Speaker 3: I want to. Pega answers, I trust you, Corey, do
Speaker 3: whatever you want. But Corey questions, what if I don't
Speaker 3: want to? She insists, then you don't have to. Corey
Speaker 3: shouts good because the food is no good and the
Speaker 3: service is just crazy to Pega agrees, if you think
Speaker 3: that's what's best, Corey's giddy. He leans back on the
Speaker 3: bed with open arms in a huge grin. Now come
Speaker 3: here and give me some sugar.
Speaker 2: Disgusting, but also this is to me, this is the
Speaker 2: end of the episode.
Speaker 1: She's literally saying, like, so what was she upset about
Speaker 1: the dishonesty that he didn't tell her it was fair?
Speaker 1: Might not have just hair, but also might have just
Speaker 1: not happened, like didn't he didn't call her before he
Speaker 1: went to clarage, so he did not so he didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily do anything wrong. But just tell me, or I guess,
Speaker 1: tell the truth.
Speaker 2: I mean Corey did.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's no problem, and now like the fact that
Speaker 1: he took the ring offense up becoming the problem. Correct,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm like, why, I just yes, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a yeah, it's a conflict, a conflict looking
Speaker 1: for characters to make that conflict work, as opposed to
Speaker 1: a natural conflict arising from who these characters are and
Speaker 1: what the situation is correct.
Speaker 3: Correct. Instead, the Banka just walks out of the room
Speaker 3: through his now pained smile. Corey asques what else is new?
Speaker 3: Then Louis appears in the doorway, gambling Dan wants to
Speaker 3: see him, and then gambling Dan just walks up past Louie.
Speaker 3: Corey points out the obvious, He's right there, you pigeon.
Speaker 3: Louie can't believe it. He just called me a pigeon.
Speaker 3: Dan breaks it to him, he is a pigeon. Louie
Speaker 3: accepts this new title.
Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, what is he saying?
Speaker 1: Then it's true.
Speaker 3: Dan tells Corey he was the man tonight, he was
Speaker 3: jealous when the girls crowded him, and he admits he
Speaker 3: was wrong about Corey. Dan even admires the fact that
Speaker 3: he finally stopped wearing that stupid ring. Cory stares at
Speaker 3: his hand in true horror my ring. Then we see
Speaker 3: a quick flash back to Corey setting his ring down
Speaker 3: on the napkin dispenser and cleavage Snapping back to reality,
Speaker 3: Corey says, I gotta stop look into the past. I
Speaker 3: need to look to the future, which doesn't make any
Speaker 3: sense in this context. He does need to look to
Speaker 3: the past because he needs to go, but he needs
Speaker 3: to figure out where he and then he did, and.
Speaker 1: Then it's just that, like the image is so horrifying
Speaker 1: that he's like, I just want to look at the future,
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 3: You know, then we flash forward. Corey is peacefully asleep,
Speaker 3: only to wake up and find Topanga at the foot
Speaker 3: of his bed. He smiles, but quickly realizes she's holding
Speaker 3: a hatchet. Corey screams and pants a hatchet or is
Speaker 3: it like.
Speaker 1: And that is that shot over your shoulder looking down
Speaker 1: at Corey with the cleaver coming up in giant Oh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty great, so fun, that's pretty misery. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Now back in the present, he admits the future is
Speaker 3: also no good, and then we're in the co ed
Speaker 3: dorm bathroom. Is my least favorite scene of any scene
Speaker 3: I've ever seen ever in the history of the show,
Speaker 3: especially for its Panga and Angela well.
Speaker 1: Also like having a conversation about whether women should be
Speaker 1: able to like undress themselves for men's entertainment while in
Speaker 1: robes and undressing yourselves and what what like Like it was,
Speaker 1: it's such a weird like doubling tripling of like confusing messages.
Speaker 1: I was like, so it's okay for us as a
Speaker 1: TV show to make a scene where women discuss the
Speaker 1: value of women. It was just like my head just exploded.
Speaker 3: I was doing it for cleanliness, right, but why.
Speaker 2: Is a TV show?
Speaker 1: Oh so weird? Oh my god, this just hurts my head,
Speaker 1: hurts my head.
Speaker 3: Angela is sitting on the bench because really, you think, okay, well,
Speaker 3: where else would they have done this? They would have
Speaker 3: needed They could have done it in the dorm. Well
Speaker 3: how would that girl have heard the conversation?
Speaker 2: So it has to be.
Speaker 1: But we'd want to see them in there. Yeah they're yeah,
Speaker 1: looking good in the robes and the things.
Speaker 3: Well it would yeah, okay. Angela is sitting on the
Speaker 3: bench talking to Tapanga, who's getting out of the shower.
Speaker 3: You think, just because you were all understanding, Corey is
Speaker 3: not going to go back to that place. Tapega is certain.
Speaker 3: I know he won't. It was a one time guy thing,
Speaker 3: and it's over Angela's eyes. I bet Sean's back there
Speaker 3: right now with all the other pervs.
Speaker 1: So this is all taking place in one night, right
Speaker 1: the episode Like this is insane, Like the amount of
Speaker 1: cramming that we had to do to make it make
Speaker 1: sense that it's a multi place in it because like
Speaker 1: Eric and Jack are still there, Rachel's still there. We
Speaker 1: go back there, you, we do the tushy dance, then
Speaker 1: we all go back to the student union. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like four in the morning by the end of
Speaker 1: this episode, and all of this has happened in the
Speaker 1: course of one night. You guys take a shower and
Speaker 1: then and then I get to put on new clothes,
Speaker 1: put on new clothing, then go back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make the decision to follow the woman who works there.
Speaker 3: Back to let's go there now, even though it just showered.
Speaker 1: From the upset that Corey would ever go back there
Speaker 1: the same night the same time to get the ring,
Speaker 1: of course, makes any sense.
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, can you go back a little bit. I
Speaker 4: have a question did they because I tried. I watched
Speaker 4: it a couple times and I didn't understand if this
Speaker 4: is what they were saying.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure I'm wrong. I'm sure this is not
Speaker 2: what they were saying, but didn't they did?
Speaker 4: They make it seem like Topanga came at Corey in
Speaker 4: a certain way to manipulate him into never going back
Speaker 4: to Clone.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the other thing is that it was a
Speaker 3: it was a psychological trick. If I just act like, listen,
Speaker 3: you are free to do whatever you want. But I know, well,
Speaker 3: because you know what is at well. I don't say
Speaker 3: that he comes to it on his own, but by
Speaker 3: the way, I could see very much that Tapanga already
Speaker 3: knows this is not the kind of place Corey is
Speaker 3: comfortable show to Sean. Sean knows that Corey's he says,
Speaker 3: you blush at the beach. So the idea that Tapanga
Speaker 3: would think, I can see how peer pressure got to you.
Speaker 3: And so if every now and then you've got to
Speaker 3: go to a strip club to be one of the guys,
Speaker 3: then then that's okay with me. I understand. I don't
Speaker 3: want I don't want you to feel like you don't
Speaker 3: fit in with your friends. And he goes, well, he says, well,
Speaker 3: what if I don't want to, and she goes, then
Speaker 3: you don't have to. And he goes great, because the
Speaker 3: food is terrible and the service sucks and she goes,
Speaker 3: then great, then that's your decision. I'm happy you made it.
Speaker 3: So it isn't that it's actually a trap, but she
Speaker 3: does want to no sell it. It's a little like
Speaker 3: when you're talking to a kid and you go, he
Speaker 3: doesn't really want to do this thing anyway. But if
Speaker 3: I act like he can't do it because he's gonna
Speaker 3: bother me, then he's gonna want to do it. So
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say, honey, it's up to you. You're
Speaker 3: your own person. You can make your own decision and
Speaker 3: then see where he falls. But yes, the way it
Speaker 3: is written here, Angela is like, and so you think
Speaker 3: that because you didn't come down hard on him, that's
Speaker 3: somehow psychologically tricked him. But it wasn't really a trick.
Speaker 3: Corey just said, I truthfully, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not comfortable then, But that was my problem. It wasn't
Speaker 4: what Tapega did in the Tanga Corey conversation. It was
Speaker 4: the way Angela. Angel addressed it to her, like, hey,
Speaker 4: good job, make you know, tricking him into not wanting
Speaker 4: to go back is what it's said, which is.
Speaker 3: Exactly the argument I had about the whether or not
Speaker 3: it was a trap episode, right, the writers write it
Speaker 3: both ways. Yes, in this situation, what Tapanga said earlier
Speaker 3: is not a trap, Corey says, he say, he just
Speaker 3: repeats what he says to Sean in Club Clevage. I
Speaker 3: don't really like it here. I'm not comfortable here. If
Speaker 3: I have to take off my ring, maybe I don't
Speaker 3: even belong. He says that to her, and then in
Speaker 3: the next scene, Angela's like, so you think you think
Speaker 3: you have pulled a fast one on him, and Topenga goes,
Speaker 3: I sure did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you didn't. Yeah, but you didn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Because we have that, I mean, Sue and I
Speaker 4: have that where she could say to me, you want
Speaker 4: to go to strip club? Go, because she knows the
Speaker 4: most uncomfortable place I will ever be in my life
Speaker 4: is a strip club. But she wouldn't be she'd be
Speaker 4: doing it with a smile, going like you know you're
Speaker 4: gonna hate it. It wouldn't be like, oh, I'm doing
Speaker 4: it to see because I know that you know, there's
Speaker 4: no They try to make it sound like it was
Speaker 4: underhanded after the fact.
Speaker 3: Yes, which was exactly which is just I don't appreciate Again,
Speaker 3: it's the throwing of tapanga under the bus for really
Speaker 3: no reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Corey.
Speaker 3: They could have had the exact same conversation. Angela could
Speaker 3: have said, so you really think Corey's never going to
Speaker 3: go back there, and Tabga could have said, it's the
Speaker 3: least Corey place in the whole world, you know, like,
Speaker 3: that's that's not what he likes. I know he just
Speaker 3: wanted to fit in. I don't think he'll ever go
Speaker 3: back again. And we could about the exact same thing
Speaker 3: without it needing to be that. I did some psychological mooo.
Speaker 2: Psychological moo is my new favorite thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah to panga size. I guess as long as some
Speaker 3: women choose to wiggle around half naked, there will be
Speaker 3: men who go to see them. Angela argues women don't
Speaker 3: choose to work in a place like that, they're forced
Speaker 3: into it by circumstances. This pov by both of us sucks.
Speaker 1: Sucks. Yeah, is it?
Speaker 3: Is it possibly true for some people? Absolutely? Are there
Speaker 3: some people who who who do feel like my circumstances
Speaker 3: this is the only thing. Blah blah blah. The idea
Speaker 3: that two women would sit here and say, no woman
Speaker 3: in her right mind would ever do this because it's
Speaker 3: what she wants to to do. It's just gross.
Speaker 1: But that's but that's not even as bad as the
Speaker 1: fact that the woman who rebuts that argument.
Speaker 3: Is exactly it gets.
Speaker 1: It's because that is the biggest cheat to me of like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, if she's going to say, look, you
Speaker 1: don't have your worldview is too too much of a binary.
Speaker 1: The reality is it's somewhat in between. But then to
Speaker 1: have her fit into the binary still and be like, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm only a cook because I ever it's like that
Speaker 1: is so insulting to both sides of this equation, like
Speaker 1: just yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: Then another woman pops out of the shower and butts
Speaker 3: in I work there to penga surprise.
Speaker 2: Joan, you do Joan not jo jo Joan Joan of arc.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, because I need Angela holds up her hand
Speaker 3: and tells her to stop. You need go no further,
Speaker 3: my sister, I know the profile, broken home, years of
Speaker 3: a use, then a child out of wedlock, forcing you
Speaker 3: into financial chaos and a life of degradation and sin.
Speaker 3: Angela walks into a shower and closes the curtain. Dramatically,
Speaker 3: Joan reveals I'm a cook.
Speaker 2: So if she was one of the waitresses.
Speaker 3: It was the story good true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this point of view right, but this doesn't even
Speaker 1: fit Angela to have that point of view, like I
Speaker 1: know it doesn't fit her.
Speaker 4: Care Neither of them or are are saying, you know,
Speaker 4: some women are just strong and that's what they want
Speaker 4: to do and that's their choice.
Speaker 2: No one has that opinion.
Speaker 3: No one understands that maybe it's one of the jobs
Speaker 3: where you make a ton of money and that is
Speaker 3: a choice, Like it's just and fine. Make Topega and
Speaker 3: Angela not understand it, make them not understand it. Let
Speaker 3: it be a conversation for them. Let it be where
Speaker 3: Topega's argument is like Corey, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: And Angela could even say, you know, when my experience you,
Speaker 3: you don't do that because you want to. You must
Speaker 3: be forced into it, and for then Joe to come
Speaker 3: out and go, actually, I do it because I've worked
Speaker 3: a bunch of other jobs and nothing pays me as
Speaker 3: much money and I'm the hours are flexible, I get
Speaker 3: to have my days to myself. Whatever whatever it is
Speaker 3: about it that she loves. I love the music.
Speaker 2: I work with my friends all my work such good friends.
Speaker 2: There were super close we I mean. But also, by
Speaker 2: the way, if this conversation is a stand in for
Speaker 2: sex work, it's.
Speaker 1: Not even sex work. It's not even stripping, it's literally
Speaker 1: working at the restaurant.
Speaker 2: We correct, how are we dressed sexy? Which is, by
Speaker 2: the way, what a lot of actresses?
Speaker 3: She more sure than what you wear on the beach?
Speaker 3: She could say, I actually, I actually wear more clothes
Speaker 3: than i'm than I would be. Would I even wear
Speaker 3: less clothes?
Speaker 1: You could fend a nuanced position without having to be
Speaker 1: a full on like one extreme, But we don't. We
Speaker 1: can't do it. Our show cannot accept that world.
Speaker 4: Now that really, But it's also writer, what you just
Speaker 4: said makes so much sense where it's like, so then
Speaker 4: where all of these actresses. Should they have turned down
Speaker 4: the role of playing the waitress because they're doing exactly
Speaker 4: the same. Should the women who are in this scene
Speaker 4: not be wearing their their robes and towels like this
Speaker 4: woman whose actress is coming out like our show is literally.
Speaker 2: Doing the thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, that it is then trying to argue women should
Speaker 1: not have to do or that if you only do
Speaker 1: because of desperation and degradation of self degradation like that is.
Speaker 1: It's that's what my head just exploded.
Speaker 3: During the scene Yesh, Topanga explains angel is a bit
Speaker 3: sensitive these days. Is this place really that bad? Joan
Speaker 3: insists it's harmless. The girls wear more than you'd see
Speaker 3: them were at the beach. Joan offers, I'm on my
Speaker 3: way to work right now. You want to check it out?
Speaker 3: To Panga nods, yeah, I'm kind of curious to see
Speaker 3: what Corey finds so fascinating, even though Cory just told
Speaker 3: her he doesn't like.
Speaker 1: It and does it to bond with the guys, when
Speaker 1: she knows.
Speaker 3: He's doing it because he needed to bond with the guys,
Speaker 3: So why is she like, huh, well, what does he
Speaker 3: find so fascinating about this place?
Speaker 4: It's it's like they're writing it scene by scene, forgetting
Speaker 4: the last scene we just shot.
Speaker 3: Yes, why doesn't every Sean say I want to see
Speaker 3: what Sean finds so fascinating about the scene and Topanga, Angela.
Speaker 4: And Joan go together to get a burger because because
Speaker 4: Sean is already down the path of the devil, you
Speaker 4: can save Cory at this point if you figure out
Speaker 4: what's going on, but you can't until Angela's back in
Speaker 4: his life.
Speaker 2: You can't save Sean.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're back at Club Clevage. Rachel is still
Speaker 3: sitting at a table with her notebook. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: We've been here all night, and it's like you two
Speaker 3: aren't having any fun at all. We reveal she's sitting
Speaker 3: with Jack and Eric, who both have girls sitting on
Speaker 3: their laps, but their faces show no signs of happiness.
Speaker 3: Eric admits, frankly, we are appalled by what's going on here.
Speaker 3: Jack tells the girl sitting on him, ma'am, I'm not
Speaker 3: a chair. Rachel assures them, don't let me stop you
Speaker 3: from having fun. I'm just observing for my paper.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 3: The waitress on Eric's lap wonders for Yeager's class. Rachel
Speaker 3: realizes that's why she recognized her and reveals the topic
Speaker 3: of her paper, women and their influence on male bonding.
Speaker 3: Eric clarifies there isn't any. Then she tells his waitress
Speaker 3: to cover up he's trying to eat. She pinches his
Speaker 3: cheek and leaves him be. Rachel begs them to stop it.
Speaker 3: All her paper will say is that two guys that
Speaker 3: she's getting to know very well are inhibited in the
Speaker 3: presence of their female roommate from behaving normally in a
Speaker 3: male oriented environment. Jack agrees, thanks to you, we understand
Speaker 3: women a lot better and hold ourselves to a higher
Speaker 3: standard for morality. Rachel beams really. Eric agrees, Yeah really,
Speaker 3: Ever since you moved in, we learned this new maturity,
Speaker 3: and every time you're around, we're reminded of it. I
Speaker 3: would like to add here that when men on the
Speaker 3: Internet or anywhere things like I have a daughter, and
Speaker 3: so I'm going to I couldn't. I couldn't you know,
Speaker 3: I have a wife, and therefore.
Speaker 1: The worst defense I've ever heard, Yes, that to.
Speaker 3: Explain it, because I really think that some men feel
Speaker 3: then really shocked when somebody goes ew. Don't don't say
Speaker 3: that your relation to another woman shouldn't be the thing
Speaker 3: that makes you realize their humanity.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you're recognizing one type of one woman, correct,
Speaker 1: my daughter, my wife, versus the other type of woman,
Speaker 1: the poor prostitute, strippers, sex worker like that that divide
Speaker 1: is the problem. Like if you don't see you see
Speaker 1: one person, one type of woman as a human being
Speaker 1: worthy of respect the other.
Speaker 3: Ye, it's like and that is what you guys say
Speaker 3: in the scene, well, it's hard for us to degrade
Speaker 3: women because now when we look at women, we also
Speaker 3: think of you, and you've ruined that for us. You're
Speaker 3: ruined it. You're actively ruining it for us.
Speaker 2: Now, well we saw that with Corey. He when he
Speaker 2: looked at the waitress, he saw to pega.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, all he apparently wants from Topanga is to see her.
Speaker 2: Give me some Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like starting when you meet somebody and they start
Speaker 4: their sentence with I'm not a racist, but.
Speaker 3: No, ev what's coming next to.
Speaker 2: Be awful?
Speaker 3: Rachel is flattered, and Eric nods, you should be. Now
Speaker 3: get out, it's time for the tushy dance. She laughs
Speaker 3: and tells them to enjoy themselves before leaving. Then we
Speaker 3: see Corey frantically run into the establishment. He asks the
Speaker 3: hostess which way is the Lost and Found. She points
Speaker 3: over there, next to daycare. Corey then notices his waitress
Speaker 3: from the other night.
Speaker 2: She calls him the groom that night, not the other night.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, Corey notices his waitress from earlier in the evening.
Speaker 3: She calls him the groom and figures he had such
Speaker 3: a good time he had to just come back for more.
Speaker 3: Corey explains that he's back because he left his ring behind,
Speaker 3: which happened to magically slip off during the festive evening
Speaker 3: they spent together. The girl wonders if it's in this
Speaker 3: drawer with all the other rings that happen to come off.
Speaker 3: Then she dumps hundreds of wedding bands onto the table.
Speaker 3: Corey quickly sifts through the pile of rings, and a
Speaker 3: voice sounds over the bar Speakers ladies and gentlemen. Cleavage
Speaker 3: presents its world famous tushy dance. Everyone gathers in the
Speaker 3: middle of the room, including Eric and Jack, and the
Speaker 3: girls start holding their butts and synchronized dancing, a routine
Speaker 3: the boys seem to know by heart. Then Corey exclaims,
Speaker 3: my ring, I found it. He jumps up and down
Speaker 3: with joy, now making his way into the center of
Speaker 3: the dance floor, where all the girls are around him
Speaker 3: shaking their butts. He joins in shouting everything worked out,
Speaker 3: my tush touched hers. He blissfully celebrates and doesn't notice
Speaker 3: to Panga has walked into the club. As to Panga
Speaker 3: glances around, Chef Joan proves there's nothing shocking here, but
Speaker 3: then Tapega spots her fiance and her jaw drops to
Speaker 3: the floor. She makes a bee line toward Corey, who's
Speaker 3: now doing some sort of makarena with a woman. She
Speaker 3: asks what he's doing. Shocked to see her, Corey stops
Speaker 3: dead in his tracks, but the waitress behind him grabs
Speaker 3: his arms and moves them to the music. Tapega points
Speaker 3: out that he's tushy dancing, and Corey says I am not,
Speaker 3: and Topega rightfully shouts I'm looking at you.
Speaker 2: How does Penga know it's called the tissue dance?
Speaker 3: I heard over the speaker, aren't Did.
Speaker 4: Anybody else also think someone was going to bump into
Speaker 4: Corey who was going to drop the ring?
Speaker 2: It was going to fall on the ground. It was
Speaker 2: going to be him like rooting on the ground for
Speaker 2: the ring. That's where I thought.
Speaker 6: This was going.
Speaker 2: Mmmm.
Speaker 3: Probably would have been better. Corey says it's not him better, yeah,
Speaker 3: and urges the woman to get off of him, and
Speaker 3: that's when Tapanga notices he isn't wearing his ring. Why
Speaker 3: he found it? Why didn't he immediately put it back on?
Speaker 3: Corey tries to explain himself, but Topanga just takes the
Speaker 3: ring from his hand and walks away, and later at
Speaker 3: the student union, Corey walks in and sees Angela. She
Speaker 3: points him in the direction of the fireplace where Tapanga
Speaker 3: is sitting alone staring at Corey's engagement ring.
Speaker 1: Beautiful little fireplace.
Speaker 2: Spot. I don't remember that at all. It's cool, he
Speaker 2: tells her.
Speaker 3: There's a perfectly logical reason for what happened to Penga
Speaker 3: says she'd love to hear it. Corey assures her she's
Speaker 3: going to laugh. I didn't go back to that place
Speaker 3: tonight to do the tushy dance. I only went back
Speaker 3: because I left my ring on the table and I
Speaker 3: had to go get it back to Pega asks why
Speaker 3: would you take off your ring? Corey explains, because they
Speaker 3: were calling me the major. There are some places where
Speaker 3: a guy goes where he feels uncomfortable wearing a ring,
Speaker 3: and most guys don't even wear a ring before they
Speaker 3: get married, and even some merry guys don't wear rings
Speaker 3: to Penga reminds him, I never asked you to wear
Speaker 3: an engagement ring. You saw mine and said pretty, I
Speaker 3: want one. Corey argues, that's because I didn't expect all
Speaker 3: the men to hate me for it, but they really do.
Speaker 3: I stick out at every place they go to poker games,
Speaker 3: steam baths, cock fights, to Pega.
Speaker 1: Asks just to understand the conflict here, it's like and now,
Speaker 1: because then she says, you I have feeling the choice
Speaker 1: to have the thing or to have the ring. So
Speaker 1: then she could easily say, since since you don't want
Speaker 1: to wear a ring, and that's fine, don't wear it.
Speaker 3: Don't worrying if she said, listen, Corey, we agreed that
Speaker 3: if I was going to wear a ring, you were
Speaker 3: gonna wear a ring. And if the problem is looking
Speaker 3: like you belong to somebody, maybe you shouldn't belong to somebody,
Speaker 3: that's fair. Then it'd be then it'd be a conflict.
Speaker 3: So and some married guys don't wear rings. So you're
Speaker 3: all right, we're not even married yet, and you're already
Speaker 3: telling me you don't want an obvious symbol of marriage
Speaker 3: on your hand. Topeka asks, don't you realize the people
Speaker 3: you so desperately want to be accepted by would probably
Speaker 3: rather have what you have? All people just need to
Speaker 3: be reships, stable relationship, that's what they need.
Speaker 2: You cannot be happy and single. They do not work
Speaker 2: in the boy Mets world.
Speaker 3: You need no wow. Corey's confused. What do I have
Speaker 3: to Penga rolls her eyes me. She clarifies, I mean
Speaker 3: someone who cares about them. That's all the ring is about, Corey,
Speaker 3: that I have somebody that cares about me. But I
Speaker 3: care about you, whether you want to wear the ring
Speaker 3: or you don't. Corey pushes back. If I want to
Speaker 3: play poker, I'm playing to Penga nods, go play, he continues,
Speaker 3: and if I want to play me a little touch
Speaker 3: football on the field with the boys, I'm playing ta
Speaker 3: Pega encourages him again, you go and run real hard,
Speaker 3: and Corey continues, and if I want to take my
Speaker 3: ring off to Penga cuts him off. No, you either
Speaker 3: wear the ring or you don't. He asks why, and
Speaker 3: she explains, because I have feelings too, Corey. She holds
Speaker 3: out the ring toward him, and at the same moment, Dan, Louie,
Speaker 3: and Sean come waltzing in. Dan announces, Hey, Matthew's poker
Speaker 3: game my room. Dig this, You're actually invited this time.
Speaker 3: Louie is excited, and now they're going to play poker.
Speaker 2: What time is that it is? And he must be
Speaker 2: a student because they because he says, my room. So
Speaker 2: that's at the local motel.
Speaker 3: Louie is excited. This is great. There's two poker games
Speaker 3: on the same day. I get my allowance check from
Speaker 3: my mom.
Speaker 1: So we played poker.
Speaker 2: Where went to the strip club?
Speaker 1: Went back to the strip?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, well but I came back home, went
Speaker 3: back to the strip club and playing and and Pank
Speaker 3: is probably gonna take two more showers. Uh Dan laughs. Yeah, ironic,
Speaker 3: isn't it. As the two walk away Sean joins Corey
Speaker 3: and to Pang at the fireplace, Corey asks his best friend,
Speaker 3: are you still hanging out with those guys? Shawn shrugs, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's either that or sleep. You coming tonight? Corey smiles, Yeah,
Speaker 3: save me a seat, But he adds, but if I
Speaker 3: don't show up, it's probably because I'm having a better
Speaker 3: time with somebody else.
Speaker 4: That's what I said. Okay, that's super ambiguous. We need
Speaker 4: four people for poker. Are you coming or are you
Speaker 4: not coming?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 3: I need to know. Also, kind of this is a
Speaker 3: good opportunity for you to say, go go be with
Speaker 3: the guys. You're good there, go go go sit and
Speaker 3: play poker with your bros instead of sitting here with
Speaker 3: me at the fireplace. I've showered and I'm.
Speaker 2: Ready for bed, so you can goower again.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Corey sits back with Topanga and she smiles. He takes
Speaker 3: the ring from her hand and slips it back onto
Speaker 3: his finger. Sean watches on and says, good for you guys.
Speaker 3: Corey reminds him, you know, Sean, you're always invited to
Speaker 3: hang out with us. Sean nods, I know. Then he
Speaker 3: turns and sees Angela at the bull table. He sighs
Speaker 3: and walks right past her, and Angela sadly watches him leave.
Speaker 3: Cory and Tapanga notice the exchange and are sad to
Speaker 3: see the current state of their relationship their horrible lives
Speaker 3: because they're not together.
Speaker 2: Looks like you're walking away from happiness, my friend.
Speaker 3: Wow again, there's no tag.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is probably the most ideologically twisted episode of
Speaker 1: Boyman's World in that it's twisting itself around all these
Speaker 1: different concepts that don't work against each other or with
Speaker 1: each other, and it's like trying to do it all
Speaker 1: and it just is a confusing mess of from me
Speaker 1: from scene to scene.
Speaker 4: Like it is it's I have to bleeth this one
Speaker 4: because I was honestly thinking. I was like, okay, I
Speaker 4: get people come for us sometimes and they're like, hey,
Speaker 4: you guys are looking at it from the lens.
Speaker 2: Of now, or you're being overly harsh in the show.
Speaker 4: I don't know how anybody could watch this episode and
Speaker 4: defend it in any way, shape or form. This is
Speaker 4: just a bad episode of television, just just a bad
Speaker 4: episode of Boy Meets World. It's a bad episode, internal
Speaker 4: logic all the way around.
Speaker 2: It's just bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you all for joining us for this bad episode.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks to means World.
Speaker 3: You can join us for our next episode recap, which
Speaker 3: is season six, episode nine, poetic license, an ode to
Speaker 3: Holden Coffield.
Speaker 4: Oh God, we're here, We're here, Yes poetry okay what
Speaker 4: rhymes with can't wait?
Speaker 3: The originally aired November twentieth, nineteen ninety eight. As always,
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