Speaker 1: So as we oftentimes discuss here on our lovely podcast.
Speaker 2: We get it's pretty good meets World. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: In case people didn't know.
Speaker 1: What it was.
Speaker 3: You're not confused if you're listening to pod meets World.
Speaker 2: Who played to Panga?
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: We we try to get in depth with our what
Speaker 1: I like to call PSC or pre show chatter, and
Speaker 1: today's PSC is going to be no different because this
Speaker 1: is one that sparked a conversation at dinner the other
Speaker 1: night that then brought waiters and everybody else into the conversation.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to bring this to my two best friends,
Speaker 1: but they're out of town this week, so I'm bringing
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 3: He got me, You got me.
Speaker 1: There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo
Speaker 1: was his name. O is Bingo the farmer or the dog?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: It's the dog.
Speaker 1: But it starts there was a farmer you had a
Speaker 1: dog and Bingo was his name. O.
Speaker 2: So isn't the song about the farmer? Yeah, I'm going farmer.
Speaker 3: I think it's still the dog. I mean, Bingo is.
Speaker 4: The name for a dog. But then where everybody's name
Speaker 4: was like Michael and Bob.
Speaker 1: But That's my question then is is would the whole
Speaker 1: song then change if it was there was a farmer
Speaker 1: who had a dog and John was his name, o,
Speaker 1: then is it clearly about the farmer and is just
Speaker 1: changing the name then changed the whole who the song
Speaker 1: is about. That's that's what the question, because then another
Speaker 1: waiter would walk by and be like, no, it's got
Speaker 1: to be the dog.
Speaker 4: And then I mean, I just, I just somebody has
Speaker 4: to like open a place called like Bingo's farm, right,
Speaker 4: and it's the name of the farmer. The farmer is
Speaker 4: the farmer, Like, I think it's the farmer too, a
Speaker 4: dude named Bingo, Like that's and I feel.
Speaker 2: Like this farmer now for what one hundred years, has
Speaker 2: been like wait.
Speaker 3: A minute, it's a song about me.
Speaker 2: This song is about me. Dude.
Speaker 1: My dog's name was Jeff, Like you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: my question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well I think it's the dog, and writer thinks.
Speaker 5: It's the farmer.
Speaker 2: Getting deep, guys, that's what I'm saying. Well, I think
Speaker 2: it's the farmer.
Speaker 3: You think it's the farmer too, I do.
Speaker 1: I think this guy has been overlooked now for like
Speaker 1: a century. This poor farmer, farmer Bingo who worked as
Speaker 1: off and is.
Speaker 2: He related to Old McDonald?
Speaker 4: Like, are they like McDonald's son, So it's mcbinga McDonald.
Speaker 1: He's bing McDonald McDonald the greatest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Old McDonald had a farm. Wait, how does
Speaker 2: old like Thenald McDonald confused me.
Speaker 3: Too, McDonald had a farm. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: The chicks, he has all the stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay, but Bingo is the son who's next door
Speaker 4: with his farm.
Speaker 2: God, he's got a dog that nobody knows the family.
Speaker 3: Mcdonald'srominga McDonald McDonald.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it sounds more porn or more
Speaker 1: like highlander character, Like I'm Bingle McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Which is which one sounds better? McDonald's.
Speaker 3: I think I think we need to have our own
Speaker 3: Chubbies pop up, but instead of Joby's, it's just called
Speaker 3: Bingle McDonald and we serve all the animals on the
Speaker 3: farm except dog.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I love that. Oh it's such a great way to start. Well,
Speaker 2: are we still gonna do the Chubbies pop up?
Speaker 3: I think we still should do it. It's one of
Speaker 3: them fifty ideas we toss out.
Speaker 2: You have to do that. Been doing episodes of our sitcom.
Speaker 4: If any one of us could run a restaurant, if
Speaker 4: anyone has had like any ability to make a restaurant, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's got to be a way.
Speaker 2: Gotta be one of our listeners whose name is like
Speaker 2: pop up Jim and that's what he does.
Speaker 3: And so his business.
Speaker 4: Guys, there was a guy who's done.
Speaker 5: That would be great.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Again, hard hitting, I get it. I know sometimes I
Speaker 1: go philosophical.
Speaker 3: But it was into this.
Speaker 2: We had this.
Speaker 3: I'm really glad we had this guy needed some in
Speaker 3: de ps just the way it is. Welcome to Pod
Speaker 3: meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel.
Speaker 2: I'm being strong and I'm his dad. Will you a writer?
Speaker 6: He's will my two best friends and you're gonna stay
Speaker 6: that way.
Speaker 3: How dare you? Uh?
Speaker 2: And I'm writers derailed? We have official?
Speaker 6: Oh someone sent me my friend Brooklyn sent me uh
Speaker 6: an Instagram post the other day that was just like
Speaker 6: some funny screenshots between people and one of them was like.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for you know, I had a really great
Speaker 3: time with you tonight, and the response back was like yeah,
Speaker 3: me too, and the other person wrote back, so are
Speaker 3: we a letter? A? And then official My last name,
Speaker 3: and the person was like huh and they were like,
Speaker 3: you know, are we official? It was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm very confused. He's like, will you be my girlfriend?
Speaker 3: And so then another one that was on there that
Speaker 3: made me laugh way more than the official. Of course
Speaker 3: she sent that to me because I'm official. But the
Speaker 3: one after that was somebody saying that they wanted to
Speaker 3: be manga Moose and the person was like, what what
Speaker 3: is mengamos? And they were like, you know, like I
Speaker 3: only sleep with one person at a time. I love
Speaker 3: Manga Moose. It's like, oh, look.
Speaker 1: The one I saw that made me laugh that I
Speaker 1: couldn't stop thinking about was she just said, guy, Colin,
Speaker 1: you know, it comes to a point in a relationship
Speaker 1: where you've seen the other person's butthole more than they've
Speaker 1: seen it, And I think that's really special. Priest, and
Speaker 1: Sally has decided to write her vows as well, laughed.
Speaker 3: Gosh. Okay, Well, welcome to this episode of Pod Meets World.
Speaker 3: It is our season six, episode eleven cap of Santa's
Speaker 3: Little Helpers. It originally aired December eleven, writers birthday eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah so I turned nineteen.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: The synopsis, well, celebrating Christmas, Corey and Tapanga accidentally bring
Speaker 3: Sean and Angela back together, while Eric takes a job
Speaker 3: as a mall Santa and finds a higher calling. It
Speaker 3: was directed by Lynn McCracken. Yes, oh nice. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: have heard us talk about her brother, mister Jeff McCracken
Speaker 3: ad nauseum on this podcast. We love him, We love Lynn.
Speaker 3: This was was this her first episode of directing ever?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well ever television, I don't know, but she she
Speaker 4: was our stage manager for the entire first season.
Speaker 2: And maybe half second season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for Steve Hayfer, so before Steve's having a baby, right,
Speaker 4: Lynn was.
Speaker 2: Our stage manage, stage manager.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she really yeah, set the tone for our
Speaker 4: show on our backstage and all of that, and then
Speaker 4: kind of disappeared and we didn't see her for a
Speaker 4: long time until she came back to direct.
Speaker 1: To this, which sucks because she was like one of
Speaker 1: the first people I met when I came out here
Speaker 1: and was just so sweet, so welcoming and control.
Speaker 2: Yes, she really did. Yeah, she was wonderful.
Speaker 3: Michael and everyone else involved in the decision making was
Speaker 3: really good about giving people an opportunity to direct on
Speaker 3: this show. Yeah, we've talked about Rusty directing. We've talked
Speaker 3: about you know, Fred. He gave Fred his first opportunity
Speaker 3: to direct Lynn, Steve Hayfer, So, you know.
Speaker 4: And I feel like these last couple of seasons we
Speaker 4: had a lot of first time directors, a lot of
Speaker 4: actors trying it out or people that were in other positions.
Speaker 1: We had Mickey Mickey Dolan's came it didn't also start
Speaker 1: from mister.
Speaker 2: Mac Yeah, oh right, Jerry Levin, Jerry and Jerry Levine
Speaker 2: came on.
Speaker 4: Jerry, Yeah, he came and he ended up He's been
Speaker 4: a full time director basically ever since.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he did. I mean a lot of these
Speaker 3: people have that we just named. Steve Hayfer went on
Speaker 3: to be a yep, full time director. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 3: of people went on. Lynn has done like thirty episodes
Speaker 3: of TV, so you know, quite a lot of people
Speaker 3: who started their careers with us. This episode was written
Speaker 3: by Laura Ohlsen and Patty Carr and guest starring Penny
Speaker 3: Bay Bridges as the young Santa visiting Lucy. She began
Speaker 3: her career playing Michael Jordan's daughter in Space Jam and
Speaker 3: then in the movie Nothing to Lose with Martin Lawrence.
Speaker 3: She would also appear in Clint Eastwood's True Crime in
Speaker 3: Mario van Peebles Badass has lots of essays in it
Speaker 3: with an exclamation point.
Speaker 2: Well it's Mario van Peebles.
Speaker 3: She is also the niece of different Strokestar Todd Bridges,
Speaker 3: and her dad was an actor as well. If you
Speaker 3: guys want to feel old, she has a beautiful young
Speaker 3: daughter herself.
Speaker 2: Now, oh man, yeah, it does make me feel old.
Speaker 3: Then we have the legendary character actor Patrick Cranshaw as
Speaker 3: the Penbrooke Custodian, best known as Blue from Old School,
Speaker 3: as in You're My Boy.
Speaker 2: Blue, You're My Boy Blue.
Speaker 3: That would catapult him into pop culture infamy. His distinctive
Speaker 3: old man look landed him in movies like Peewee's Big Adventure,
Speaker 3: Bonnie and Clyde, Sergent, Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Best
Speaker 3: in Show, Bubble Boy, and the list goes.
Speaker 5: On and on.
Speaker 1: He was twenty four when he did our episode. That's
Speaker 1: how much great man he looks like. That's just so
Speaker 1: good at it. Title casting All the Toads wasn't available
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Unfortunately, Cranshaw died in two thousand and five at
Speaker 3: the age of eighty six. So yeah, two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: this was ninety eight, This was seven years he was
Speaker 3: seventy nine here, okay. And then we have JB. Gaynor
Speaker 3: as Tommy. JB started his career at just seven years old,
Speaker 3: appearing on shows like Frasier, Mad About You, and Party
Speaker 3: of Five. This is just the first of three Boy
Speaker 3: Meets World episodes. He would reprise this role in a
Speaker 3: memorable and almost constantly viral scene on Girl Meets World yep.
Speaker 3: And then Jake Saxon as Edgar. Did you know that
Speaker 3: Jake's first real role was as little boy in the
Speaker 3: movie Trojan War.
Speaker 2: That's how I know him.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there watching and I was like, what
Speaker 1: I even said to Sue him, like the he looks
Speaker 1: so familiar to me.
Speaker 3: That's that's okay, all right? His first job he ever had. Okay.
Speaker 3: He also appeared on Beverly Hill's nine oh two, one
Speaker 3: Oh Mister, Show Star Trek Voyager, Charmed, and podcast favorite Hangtime.
Speaker 3: But he left the business in nineteen ninety nine and
Speaker 3: Dorian Wilson as the mall manager. Dorian is best known
Speaker 3: as Professor Stanley Ogilvie from upn sitcom The Parkers. He
Speaker 3: also was Chandler's boss on Friends and appeared on the
Speaker 3: early HBO adult comedy dream On.
Speaker 2: He was awesome on all of those.
Speaker 3: So before we jump into our recap, does anyone have
Speaker 3: any overall thoughts they'd like to share?
Speaker 2: I'll start if you want, Okay, go for it. I
Speaker 2: loved it, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I think I'm to the point of I saw so
Speaker 1: many moments in this episode of just us trying to
Speaker 1: make each other loud and entertain each other fun that
Speaker 1: I just let everything else go. I'm like, Eric is
Speaker 1: Santa with little kids?
Speaker 3: Great? I love that.
Speaker 2: You know, Ben is hysterically funny.
Speaker 1: Once again, he did several things that I just kept
Speaker 1: rewounding and were laughing my ass off, and I just
Speaker 1: kind of let everything else go, and I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: for twenty two minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you kind of had to let everything else go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there wasn't much else there.
Speaker 1: No, it's true, but again Bill Daniels reading something for
Speaker 1: Christmas and all it was all little moments.
Speaker 2: I was like, fine, this episode is a vibe. This
Speaker 2: episode is like an.
Speaker 4: It's a holiday thing that I really liked like I
Speaker 4: was kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Just turn the Christmas lights on and let's chill out,
Speaker 2: Like there's.
Speaker 4: Not much story, Like I don't care about Sean and Angelo.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm one half of that couple, and I
Speaker 4: just didn't care.
Speaker 3: But I like seeing they've let it go and Dan'll
Speaker 3: have fun.
Speaker 2: They're too long, who cares the story?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Both stories were just kind of like, really, is this
Speaker 2: even a story? How does Eric?
Speaker 4: Like Eric doesn't just he doesn't really change that much,
Speaker 4: like you have this monologue to God.
Speaker 2: But I was like, but you've already You're already doing all.
Speaker 4: The right stuff, Like I know, Eric's already got a
Speaker 4: heart of gold, Like he doesn't need to learn anything.
Speaker 2: He's not being mean to anything. None of these and
Speaker 2: Sean and Angela do love each other, so there's no conflict.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it was a nice vibe, like
Speaker 4: you want.
Speaker 2: Next to a Christmas tree?
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that, I know, I agree with both
Speaker 3: of you. I didn't even allow myself to overanalyze anything
Speaker 3: pertaining to the story. I just went right, we need
Speaker 3: to have this conversation about what's going to happen now
Speaker 3: that we know that Sean and Angela both love each other. Still.
Speaker 3: I find it shocking, truly that that Sean still doesn't
Speaker 3: know what he what he wants.
Speaker 4: And nonsense, it's nonsense theater.
Speaker 1: I think I know, but I think I know the
Speaker 1: reason why they're doing it, and I think we get
Speaker 1: to it later and they allude to it at the
Speaker 1: beginning where he says, your dad's disappeared again, that Sean.
Speaker 4: Lean into it, have seans some of thatship because and
Speaker 4: instead it's just they do eventually.
Speaker 3: Also, I would love to know a little bit more
Speaker 3: about what does cause him fear. Does he think he's
Speaker 3: going to be like his dad and he's gonna always leave?
Speaker 3: Because honestly, he's been nothing but present in He's always
Speaker 3: been in greed we have, He's never gone anywhere much
Speaker 3: to right or Strong's dism He write me off this
Speaker 3: show when they're like you are loyal, so you know,
Speaker 3: like he's not going anywhere?
Speaker 2: Well you did you do all the time and doing
Speaker 2: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but I.
Speaker 4: Should just be me like running my hands in my hair, angsty.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying anything. My character stands for nothing. It's
Speaker 2: so weird.
Speaker 1: We've also said this We've brushed on this a number
Speaker 1: of times, but I'd like to once again point.
Speaker 5: Out Trina is really good, so great.
Speaker 2: Trina is a really good actor.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I was fully aware of
Speaker 1: how good she was because I never worked with her,
Speaker 1: which we make a joke about in this We fall
Speaker 1: on make a great joke about in this episode on
Speaker 1: my show.
Speaker 4: And see these guys.
Speaker 2: With each other dying.
Speaker 3: Also, I was trying to figure out what I say.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what do I do?
Speaker 4: Because you're talking like but that was us just screwing
Speaker 4: with each other.
Speaker 2: Let's make this a thing.
Speaker 3: Let's let's make it a thing, because here we are
Speaker 3: the two storylines A and B storyline crossing at the door.
Speaker 2: I mean, how much Ben was having so much fun
Speaker 2: this season? This season Ben.
Speaker 4: Ben arrived as like a confident actor in a different way,
Speaker 4: and you can I mean, I just this is the
Speaker 4: Ben I remember the most, is like, this is Ben
Speaker 4: is just having the best time.
Speaker 2: He was having so much fun playing this character. And
Speaker 2: we are just dying.
Speaker 3: With Ben and I in the student union when we
Speaker 3: realize and he snaps and I stand up. I remember
Speaker 3: those moments of us just playing like and and it
Speaker 3: is so much fun because the mind meld that writer
Speaker 3: you and Ben had, Ben and I also had from
Speaker 3: being in all the you know, all the when you
Speaker 3: think about how funny it is that I do really
Speaker 3: think all those storylines of angsty relationship Corey into Penga
Speaker 3: stuff bonded us as people, not even just the characters,
Speaker 3: but they It bonded us in a way that we
Speaker 3: had a shorthand. Yeah, and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3: It was so much fun to watch.
Speaker 4: It is really nice to have Corey and Tapanga played
Speaker 4: for comedy. I to have that you guys doing hijinks
Speaker 4: and like having your own it's a very Corey Shawan
Speaker 4: dynamic finally.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's it's really nice to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've had this shift though that I think is going
Speaker 1: to affect the rest of my rewatching the episodes, which
Speaker 1: is I'm not really watching it as a TV show anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm watching it as us working together, right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the changes in us as people and the
Speaker 1: little mouth turns that rider does that I recognize from
Speaker 1: one hundred feet away, and us ad libbing and us
Speaker 1: having fun, and it kind of I'm like just watching
Speaker 1: the show differently. And so this last night finished, and
Speaker 1: your rider your one hundred percent right, Like nothing happened
Speaker 1: at all, really, and.
Speaker 5: I just didn't care anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just didn't care. It was fun for me
Speaker 1: to watch you all and together.
Speaker 3: And that's so I have officially entered the Danielle as
Speaker 3: dating Lance Era and so for all for the next
Speaker 3: for the rest of the season, you'll probably see a
Speaker 3: really happy, like giddy Danielle. Yeah, unless it unless the
Speaker 3: episode calls for something else, you'll probably see a really like.
Speaker 7: I don't know, sexually frustrated, like six or seven months
Speaker 7: and you're gonna start seeing confused Danielle.
Speaker 3: You know the truth I said this though. The truth
Speaker 3: of that was I probably would have been more of
Speaker 3: that had I also not been such a late bloomer
Speaker 3: that the safety of that was perfectly fine for me.
Speaker 3: I was, like I was, I was perfectly comfortable. Did
Speaker 3: it eventually confuse me? Yeah? Maybe I was a little confused.
Speaker 2: I remember having a couple of conversations with you about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like also it was okay, it was okay.
Speaker 3: So anyway, okay, here we are jumping into our recap.
Speaker 3: We start in the student Union, We've got a Christmas episode.
Speaker 3: Pay is singing, Oh come ye faithful in Latin.
Speaker 2: And Latin lat. Can't just be going to be singing
Speaker 2: in Latin Latin.
Speaker 3: Gleefully places a tiny Christmas tree near Jack and Rachel. Also,
Speaker 3: Rachel is wearing a shirt that reads snow Bunny.
Speaker 2: Does it really that.
Speaker 3: It says snow bunny?
Speaker 5: Snow across the chest?
Speaker 4: Get back to, get back to, get back to. That's
Speaker 4: where all the hot women are, That's where they are.
Speaker 2: Gotta get him on the got to get him on
Speaker 2: the slopes.
Speaker 1: And oh my god, my brain is now such officially
Speaker 1: not seeing stuff like that anymore, Like I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't see it anymore.
Speaker 3: Jack asks what he's doing, and Phoene explains that one
Speaker 3: of his favorite duties his high school principal was overseeing
Speaker 3: holiday decoration. You know, when you when you apply for
Speaker 3: a job as a principle, one of the first things
Speaker 3: ask you is to see your look book, your holiday.
Speaker 2: Christmas Christmas. Plus you said duties, which is great duties.
Speaker 3: So he's carrying on the tradition here. Rachel admires the
Speaker 3: tree until someone dismissively plucks it off the table. It's
Speaker 3: the janitor, and he threw it into the trash bin.
Speaker 3: Phoene asks what he's doing, and the janitor calmly responds,
Speaker 3: university policy. Happy enough, denominational holidays.
Speaker 2: It's a war on Christmas joke.
Speaker 3: They would let us say Christmas. They're taking the bike
Speaker 3: at a Christmas defeated Phoene asks Jack and Rachel if
Speaker 3: they're going home for the holidays, and Rachel says no,
Speaker 3: and Jack says he was supposed to meet his parents
Speaker 3: in the Bahamas, but somehow the airlines messed up his ticket,
Speaker 3: which means he's stuck there. Then Santa bursts through the door.
Speaker 3: Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas. Though it's pretty obvious. He
Speaker 3: pulls his beard down to reveal his face. It's me.
Speaker 3: It's Eric, Me. Phoene plays along and genuinely admires Eric's
Speaker 3: holiday spirit, but Eric reveals his true motive. What I
Speaker 3: got is twelve dollars an hour and a fifteen percent
Speaker 3: discount at Stucky's department store, and a job where I
Speaker 3: get to sit on my butt all day. Hey, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like your job. Phoene stares at him wide eyed.
Speaker 3: Twelve dollars an hour, I wish, then he walks away
Speaker 3: in a huff. Eric tells Jack and Rachel that he
Speaker 3: has gifts. He signed them up to dress up for
Speaker 3: the holidays just like him. He flirtatiously hands Rachel a
Speaker 3: Santa hat missus Claws, then he aggressively throws a green
Speaker 3: pointy hat at Jack elf boy. Rachel is ecstatic. She
Speaker 3: planned on spending Christmas depressed over her ex boyfriend, but
Speaker 3: now she gets to be missus claws. Jack waves his
Speaker 3: hat in Eric's face. I'm not going to be an elf.
Speaker 3: I was depressed about not going to the Bahamas. This
Speaker 3: green pointy hat is really going to push me over
Speaker 3: the edge.
Speaker 4: So that raised the second family Bahamas trip that she
Speaker 4: has not been able to go on.
Speaker 1: Correct because he says Family the Bahamas and Rachel cannot
Speaker 1: get over her boyfriend. She it's like, at some point,
Speaker 1: you're like, dude, it is now six years. Seriously, Kay,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be you really you were going to
Speaker 1: spend with your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 2: It does that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know we don't know how long they were together,
Speaker 3: do we. I'm sure we said please don't send us
Speaker 3: your emails. I'm sure they said it.
Speaker 5: We do know.
Speaker 2: I just tell her they did. I don't think they did.
Speaker 3: It was thirty years.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 3: Half the time, half the time, half the length of
Speaker 3: time you're together. That's how it takes to go.
Speaker 2: Is that how long it takes?
Speaker 3: That's what they say.
Speaker 2: So if you were together, who are they? The first
Speaker 2: thing I would ask?
Speaker 3: It's they and and I don't know, but they know
Speaker 3: it and it's right.
Speaker 2: Was the thing you said?
Speaker 3: The best way to get over somebody is to get
Speaker 3: under somebody else. That help speed it up. If you
Speaker 3: do that, it's like half that time. So it's a
Speaker 3: half life. It's like six months.
Speaker 2: My god, I don't understand the math.
Speaker 3: I'm just waking it up as I go, based on
Speaker 3: based on what they say.
Speaker 2: It seems scientific.
Speaker 3: But Rachel convinces him it'll be fun. She puts the
Speaker 3: hat on his head and giggles about how cutie looks
Speaker 3: once she walks away. Eric Thomson, plus, you're only going
Speaker 3: to be making like five bucks an hour. Jack wonders
Speaker 3: why he's getting ripped off, and Eric points out the obvious.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, you're just an helf read your Bible. Whenever
Speaker 3: we make a joke about the Bible, it's so funny
Speaker 3: it works. Yeah, writers reading the Bible as Sean wat
Speaker 3: a Bible.
Speaker 1: Corey grabbing it next to the to the stand, but
Speaker 1: when he's going to have sex for the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just reading this book like it just always works.
Speaker 1: Jokes on one joke but gets another.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3: They all leave just as Corey and Sean are walking
Speaker 3: in mid lecture, Sean adding a purple scarf to his
Speaker 3: leather jacket. Corey is asking his best friend, the dorms
Speaker 3: are closed. Your father's missing again. Real throwaway line there,
Speaker 3: just toss that in. Why wouldn't you come to my
Speaker 3: house for Christmas? Sean says it's because he hates being
Speaker 3: the third wheel, but Corey points out he's been the
Speaker 3: third wheel with him and Tapanga for so long he
Speaker 3: thinks of them as a tricycle at this point. Without
Speaker 3: their third wheel, what would they be?
Speaker 8: Sean responds, A bicyclecle a little optic of your mouth.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 3: Sean agrees to go with Corey and thanks him for
Speaker 3: the offer, then to Panga and Angela walk in to
Speaker 3: Panga and Sean say hello, leaving him face to face
Speaker 3: with Angela. They give each other an awkward embrace, and
Speaker 3: Sean leaves, and Angela warns Topanga, maybe you should ask
Speaker 3: Corey if it's okay for me to hang out with
Speaker 3: you guys this Christmas. Topanga reminds her that since they
Speaker 3: are engaged, Corey's family is her family. Plus Angela's dad
Speaker 3: is stationed halfway around the world, so she can't spend
Speaker 3: Christmas alone.
Speaker 2: Is this inviting?
Speaker 3: I knows. I couldn't believe it. Honestly, it was like,
Speaker 3: this is just as bad as Tapega was for the
Speaker 3: Topanga Christmas episode.
Speaker 2: Serious, I'm just going to.
Speaker 3: They're my family now we are engaged, but this is
Speaker 3: the first time we mentioned that Angela's dad is in
Speaker 3: the service, right, Okay, so this is planting a seed
Speaker 3: so she can't spend Christmas alone. Angela agrees to spend
Speaker 3: the holiday with them. Thankful for the offer, she leaves
Speaker 3: to pack her bags and Corey runs up, excited to
Speaker 3: give to Panga the news there's a change of plans
Speaker 3: and their first Christmas is an engaged couple. He explains,
Speaker 3: since Sean's bunking in my room. Then he does a
Speaker 3: weird thrusting move and says, oh.
Speaker 1: I was a fifty times because just he does like
Speaker 1: two shoulder things and then goes back to the sex
Speaker 1: is even just the way he says sex. It is
Speaker 1: such a great comedy. Beele, God, it's funny.
Speaker 3: It's so funny, and so I'm sexy in the funniest
Speaker 3: way possible.
Speaker 2: He was so much, so much fun.
Speaker 3: To Benga, somehow unmoved by the thrusting, focuses on the
Speaker 3: fact that he invited Sean and she invited Angela. Corey shouts,
Speaker 3: who said you could invite Angela? Valid? Cool question?
Speaker 2: Thank you, valid question. It's my family.
Speaker 3: Now she's gonna kill me to Pega starts to freak
Speaker 3: out as well, but then they both realize why would
Speaker 3: Angela want to kill him and why would Sean blame her?
Speaker 3: They both know something the other doesn't, so Tapanga convinces
Speaker 3: him that on the count of three, they'll say that
Speaker 3: thing aloud. They count down in unison one, two, three,
Speaker 3: but Corey's the only one to blab his secret. Angela
Speaker 3: is still in love with Sean. Corey's pissed it her
Speaker 3: for tricking him, but Topanga is so happy to hear
Speaker 3: this so funny, I hate it, Corey explains he was
Speaker 3: sworn to secrecy and he needs to hear what Tapega knows.
Speaker 3: Tapega blurts out that Seawan is also still in love
Speaker 3: with Angela. Corey gasps yay, plus Tapega reveals that he
Speaker 3: wrote that poem for her after they broke up. Corey
Speaker 3: yells at another ye In response to Pega adds, the
Speaker 3: only reason he said he was over her is because
Speaker 3: he thought she was over him. Corey only smiles this time,
Speaker 3: and Tapega wonders why didn't he say yay. Corey says
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to be predictable. Tapega sternly reminds him
Speaker 3: that they can't tell Sean or Angela they know the truth,
Speaker 3: so Corey tells her the plan they tell them. Ta
Speaker 3: Benga lightly slaps him and makes him promise their friends
Speaker 3: will do this on their own. Corey screams, what kind
Speaker 3: of coka, mamie is that it's Christmas? They love each other,
Speaker 3: they're staying at my house. This thing is out of
Speaker 3: our hands. He's having so much fun and.
Speaker 1: It's becoming he's like nine different people in one line.
Speaker 4: I know he's an old Jewish Man's they love each
Speaker 4: feminine and.
Speaker 2: It just keeps going through all these different It's so funny.
Speaker 2: It is just random and so Ben and God, it's funny.
Speaker 3: To Penga desperately asks him, you won't interfere.
Speaker 4: I'm really I really want to, like, how did this
Speaker 4: translate to people? Like, because to me, it's all in jokes,
Speaker 4: Like to me, I am seeing Ben as an actor.
Speaker 4: Take you know, because these these lines are very witty,
Speaker 4: Like the back and forth is very witty, but actually
Speaker 4: could be played just kind of dead pan. Like the
Speaker 4: way it's written, it's funny enough to just be like
Speaker 4: I don't want to be predictable about but.
Speaker 2: When Ben is doing all.
Speaker 4: This extra work, I feel like it's for us, yes,
Speaker 4: And yet it must have also translated to the audience
Speaker 4: because everyone loves his performance.
Speaker 2: So like, yeah, it's it's because it's real because him.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine turning on my TV and seeing this
Speaker 4: guy without knowing it.
Speaker 2: Like I just don't know. That must have been I'm
Speaker 2: so curious what that was. Like all I see is
Speaker 2: Ben and that's but I guess that's what was coming cross.
Speaker 4: Like people must feel the way about Corey that we
Speaker 4: do about Ben because there's all these weird little lilts
Speaker 4: and in jokes and things, and that those layers added
Speaker 4: up to it's so it's so.
Speaker 2: Interesting, so good. It doesn't really make sense, but it's
Speaker 2: so funny. But yeah, that's great. Though.
Speaker 3: At some point during this Ben snaps and I jump
Speaker 3: up like it's like a Pavlov's dog. It just it's
Speaker 3: where you're where I'm supposed to be, and and and
Speaker 3: I remember us like doing those things, and then the
Speaker 3: way we stand up and he puts his arm around
Speaker 3: me and he says it's way too early to tell,
Speaker 3: and then we fall back onto the couch together. It
Speaker 3: was just so much fun. So then we're in the
Speaker 3: Matthews living room to Panga, Corey and Angela walk in
Speaker 3: as Alan is decorating the tree. Corey admits they brought
Speaker 3: a few extra people and Alan says he'll get the
Speaker 3: sleeping bergs.
Speaker 1: Well, thank god was still the Wilderness store from isn't
Speaker 1: like the tree is supposed to.
Speaker 4: Have like it's supposed to be an aluminum tree and.
Speaker 2: Get it on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3: To Canada? What is it?
Speaker 2: And then we also have like what the popcorn thing? Yes,
Speaker 2: of course, sure you strung popcorn.
Speaker 1: Really, I mean yeah, back in like elementary school and
Speaker 1: stuff like, of course you'd string popcorn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's fun for the Christmas. As he leaves
Speaker 3: the room, Sean walks in from the kitchen. He apologizes
Speaker 3: for taking so long, and then stops in his tracks
Speaker 3: when he sees Angela. She tries to play it off cool,
Speaker 3: saying she didn't know he was coming. Corey tries to
Speaker 3: explain to Pega, didn't tell me. She invited Angela and
Speaker 3: I didn't tell her I invited Sean. Huh nutty. Angela
Speaker 3: whispers under her breath Corey, I'm gonna kill you. Corey
Speaker 3: assures her it was an innocent mix up and begs
Speaker 3: her not to leave. Sean will think it's because of him. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Sewn whispers to Tapanga through gritted teeth at the other
Speaker 3: end of the room. I can't believe you did this
Speaker 3: to me. Tapega responds, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 3: She can't stay here because you're secretly in love with her.
Speaker 3: Corey and Angela walk over, and Corey tries to make
Speaker 3: things less awkward. We're all friends, friends who secretly love
Speaker 3: to Pega punches him, and Corey readjusts the holidays, and
Speaker 3: all that matters is that we're together, no matter how
Speaker 3: we really feel about each other. To Pega punches him
Speaker 3: again and he complains in pain. Why do you always
Speaker 3: have to hit? This is gonna be rough, But we
Speaker 3: see Sean and Angela both put on brave faces. Now
Speaker 3: in the mall Santa Land, Eric's new festive seasonal gig.
Speaker 3: He's dressed in his Santa costume, surrounded by Christmas decorations,
Speaker 3: but playing a video game and yelling die Die Die dead. Nearby,
Speaker 3: Jack is dressed as the Elf, and Rachel is in
Speaker 3: her missus Claw's outfit.
Speaker 4: Why couldn't we have an actual game boy? What it
Speaker 4: had to be like a bizarro game boy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we probably weren't allowed to use it. Why not?
Speaker 2: I don't know who owned Nintendo?
Speaker 3: Okay, so did that have I wonder if they just
Speaker 3: weren't a sponsor of ABC or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you're allowed to use like
Speaker 1: straight up. I mean, it's the same reason we couldn't
Speaker 1: eat cheerios. We had to eat Chario's, you know, stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So it's probably the same thing.
Speaker 3: Jack asks Eric what he's playing. Susie shops a lot.
Speaker 3: Jack calls him a freak, but Eric insults him back.
Speaker 3: At least my shoes don't point up. Rachel chimes in,
Speaker 3: if I wanted to hear two people fight for Christmas,
Speaker 3: I would have spent it with my ex boyfriend. Give
Speaker 3: you girl something else, anything, give her anything? Does she
Speaker 3: not have any family? It's just the ex boyfriend is
Speaker 3: the only person she had in her entire life.
Speaker 2: Yep, and a snow bunny shirt.
Speaker 1: Right, She took that well because in the future episode
Speaker 1: she ends up marrying her.
Speaker 2: They the ex boyfriend, so she goes back to him anyway,
Speaker 2: Yeah really, yes? Right? Then she goes to class. She
Speaker 2: wears robes and.
Speaker 3: She's just snow Bunny. She has snow Bunny, and she's
Speaker 3: obsessed a lot of death. Yeah you're talking about right.
Speaker 3: Then a little boy runs up while Santa is still
Speaker 3: playing his video game. Ho ho ho, Hold up one second,
Speaker 3: I'm almost on level two the two while okay, Then
Speaker 3: he screams, die die Die dead. Jack the elf suggests,
Speaker 3: why don't you put the game down, Santa? Missus claws
Speaker 3: ads there's a little boy that wants to sit on
Speaker 3: your lap. Eric finally lifts the boy onto his lap
Speaker 3: for a picture to be sent to his grandma. Then
Speaker 3: she'll send him a check. Santa Eric suggests after she
Speaker 3: sends the check, tell her she forgot it works every time.
Speaker 3: Well there you go.
Speaker 1: Did you do you guys notice anything really weird about
Speaker 1: the entire Santa thing?
Speaker 3: No, not anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 2: They're putting kids on my lap.
Speaker 1: She's then taking a polaroid and keeping that polaroid?
Speaker 2: So who is the picture for.
Speaker 1: The entire time She's like teaching smile and then then
Speaker 1: next to her and the kid walks away.
Speaker 2: It's like, are we.
Speaker 5: Keeping these for our weard scrapbook for ourselves?
Speaker 2: Like what is actually happening here?
Speaker 3: They come back later when they're developed to pick them up.
Speaker 3: They're polaroids, I know, but it takes at least a
Speaker 3: minute and a half for a directly to hand.
Speaker 2: The kid the polaroid. I'm like, you're going, who the
Speaker 2: pictures for? The Why are we keeping these? What's happening?
Speaker 3: I thought? I did think of it, and I was like, whatever.
Speaker 2: These pictures for?
Speaker 3: In my mind, my justification was that it was like
Speaker 3: a modern day system where the you take the picture
Speaker 3: and it prints out a copy but also a digital
Speaker 3: copy gets sent, and so they're going to a digital
Speaker 3: copy on the court. Rachel takes a picture of the
Speaker 3: two and the little boy turns on the charm, well
Speaker 3: hello missus Claus No.
Speaker 9: No, and then actually sexually assaults her.
Speaker 5: She grabs her butt yep, pikes.
Speaker 3: She rolls her eyes, and as the kid leaves, he
Speaker 3: pinches her butt.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 3: She gasps at the audacity. Then the mall boss runs
Speaker 3: up and says, a busload of kids from Saint Mary's
Speaker 3: just arrived. They are children without parents and no money
Speaker 3: at all, if you know what he means. The three
Speaker 3: of them nod until the boss angrily explains they're not
Speaker 3: going to buy anything, so get rid of them as
Speaker 3: fast as you can.
Speaker 4: Now, I this did not land, Like, this joke did
Speaker 4: not work. The audience didn't laugh. Yeah, And I feel
Speaker 4: like it's an issue of casting, Like this guy is
Speaker 4: like perfectly likable, and like you you want to cast
Speaker 4: somebody who's awful. Just second you see the person, you're like,
Speaker 4: I don't like that guy. But this guy walks in
Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, he's a normal mall guys. Right,
Speaker 4: You're like fine, So it's like bad casting like you
Speaker 4: should have cast somebody who walk in they have a
Speaker 4: look on their face and they're just like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't let you know. And because the joke just doesn't work,
Speaker 4: you're like, you're this crasshard And.
Speaker 3: Also any one line before this to make us not
Speaker 3: like him, if they had just had him at the
Speaker 3: top of the scene instead of it being about the
Speaker 3: video game, they have him saying something nasty about the
Speaker 3: little snotty nosed kids in the line, then the next
Speaker 3: time you see him, you're like, oh.
Speaker 2: This jerk. Yep. Yeah, orphans are very rarely funny.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's a hard things.
Speaker 2: It's a tough joke to break into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he spots the kids and sneers, here come the
Speaker 3: little darlings now. He quickly puts on a smile and
Speaker 3: acts like he's thrilled to see them now with their
Speaker 3: heartstrings tugged, Santa Eric suggests they give these kids a
Speaker 3: little extra attention. Missus Claws and the elf agree. Eric
Speaker 3: lifts Lucy, the first little girl, onto his lap. When asked,
Speaker 3: Lucy says she doesn't know what she wants for Christmas,
Speaker 3: but then Lucy spots Eric's Susie shops a lot game.
Speaker 3: Santa suggests that she might want one of those, but
Speaker 3: Lucy seems sad. I never got anything I asked Santa for.
Speaker 3: Eric Hans aer the game. I don't think you were
Speaker 3: asking the right Sana. Lucy exclaims, Wow, you really are Sana.
Speaker 3: She gives him a big hug, and missus Claws captures
Speaker 3: the moment for him to keep forever. Once Lucy leaves,
Speaker 3: Eric shows his excitement to Rachel. He really is Santa.
Speaker 3: Jack is amazed that Lucy really believed in them. Eric admits,
Speaker 3: I love being Santa. It's not just putting on the
Speaker 3: suit and getting the superpowers and everything.
Speaker 2: So funny. A great throw line.
Speaker 3: I mean I made her happy. He's got the photo
Speaker 3: to prove it.
Speaker 2: Actually, what is this storyline? Okay, so here's the pitch, right.
Speaker 2: The pitch was, oh my god, we gotta Eric is Sannah.
Speaker 2: It's a Christmas episode. What are we going to do?
Speaker 4: One of the writers is like, okay, great, but he
Speaker 4: wants to be Sannah, enjoys being Sana, keeps wanting to
Speaker 4: be Santa. Like there's no story, there's like it's like
Speaker 4: the way to set it up is like he takes
Speaker 4: a job of Santa because he wants the money and
Speaker 4: actually doesn't want to do it and that. But it's
Speaker 4: like they keep writing against the actual story. So because
Speaker 4: Eric is so likable, and Eric is so lovable, Eric
Speaker 4: is good with kids, like all the things that would
Speaker 4: make this a story they can't write to.
Speaker 5: I think it's just really story.
Speaker 3: I think this story, though, is actually more about like
Speaker 3: how we think, uh, you can solve you can. Like
Speaker 3: he thinks he can this problem by buying gifts, saying, oh,
Speaker 3: wouldn't Christmas be wonderful if all the kids had a
Speaker 3: gift under the tree and and and he manages to
Speaker 3: make that happen by stealing.
Speaker 4: But then the conflict of the stealing never pays off,
Speaker 4: like I can't waiting for like his parents to know.
Speaker 3: But the conflict is when the kid looks you in
Speaker 3: the eyes and says, I want a mommy and a
Speaker 3: daddy right and you can't buy them and I can't
Speaker 3: do that for them, And that's then can when he
Speaker 3: says he does, what more can I be doing? I
Speaker 3: could be donating my time on weekends to be a
Speaker 3: big brother to these people.
Speaker 2: But that's not a problem.
Speaker 3: Like Eric first going to kidnap a kid.
Speaker 2: No, but I mean, like, but.
Speaker 4: Every step of the way, there's no there's no conflict.
Speaker 4: Like literally, Eric would just hear the kids say that
Speaker 4: and be like, I will give you everything.
Speaker 2: Because he keeps doing it.
Speaker 4: So we have to monologue to God for a crisis
Speaker 4: that doesn't exist, you know, and he has a crisis
Speaker 4: about being Santa that isn't a crisis here. Like it's
Speaker 4: like the character doesn't turn, he's just it's just more
Speaker 4: of Eric doing more of the same thing you would
Speaker 4: have anyway.
Speaker 3: So there's no actual turns in his storyline.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 4: It's like they kept writing against the very thing, and
Speaker 4: I know what happened. They kept writing these storylines in
Speaker 4: these plots, but then it was like.
Speaker 2: Well, we can't have Eric actually feel that way. He's
Speaker 2: too likable. So it's weird.
Speaker 4: It's like the character doesn't actually change, doesn't do anything,
Speaker 4: doesn't fit the storyline that.
Speaker 2: He's going through. It's it's a weird I don't know,
Speaker 2: it doesn't but I'm just like Santa. But you're Sanna
Speaker 2: and you superpowers exactly the thing. It's it's fine, like
Speaker 2: it's just you. It's a vibe. It's a vibe. We're
Speaker 2: just hanging out with you.
Speaker 3: Eric tells Elf boy to go buy toys for all
Speaker 3: the kids with Santa's Santa's Dad's credit card. Jack wants
Speaker 3: to contribute to He's going to use his Bahamas trip
Speaker 3: money to help. Rachel wants to help too, but she
Speaker 3: doesn't have any money, so she'll just help Jack shop.
Speaker 3: The next kid gets on Santa's lap, and Eric is
Speaker 3: happier than ever. We transitioned later in the day with
Speaker 3: the very last Saint Mary's kid meeting Santa. Eric reaches
Speaker 3: into his big red bag for a present, but there's
Speaker 3: none left, so he just gives her the bag, which
Speaker 3: luckily she's happy about. It's the end of the day
Speaker 3: and the three Christmas workers are all a little more
Speaker 3: appreciative than before. But then Eric takes it up a notch.
Speaker 3: He tells Missus Claws and his elf that they're just
Speaker 3: getting started. He will not rest until every needy kid
Speaker 3: gets what they want for Christmas. Rachel tells Eric that
Speaker 3: no one expects that of him, but Eric asks, then
Speaker 3: why were they sent to me? But they're out of money.
Speaker 3: They've done all they can, but Eric won't accept that
Speaker 3: they just need to get more creative. Rachel doesn't get it.
Speaker 3: How are they supposed to get creative? Jack shakes his head.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't have asked him.
Speaker 2: That set it up. Eric's gonna get crazy, but nothing's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Hey, we don't know that yet. They know,
Speaker 2: but I kept being like, oh, now he's gonna get
Speaker 2: in trouble with his parents.
Speaker 4: Cut a car, here's a bunch of fruitcake and presents,
Speaker 4: and go okay, no, Bradley.
Speaker 3: Well, then we're in the Matthews living room. Eric is
Speaker 3: still wearing his Santa outfit and stealing presents from under
Speaker 3: the tree. He's even taking the entire stockings off the
Speaker 3: fireplace and putting them in his big red bag. Then
Speaker 3: Feenie walks in holding an array of individually wrapped fruitcakes.
Speaker 3: He wasn't able to give them to his new colleagues,
Speaker 3: so they had to go somewhere. Eric happily will take them.
Speaker 10: Christis they run out, run out in pendak, give me fruitcake.
Speaker 3: They run out. Apparently the tradition is to run out
Speaker 3: as fast as humanly possible.
Speaker 2: We're still not good at that accident.
Speaker 3: For the record, apparently the tradition at Penbrooke is to
Speaker 3: beat it out of town as fast as humanly possible,
Speaker 3: but he's excited to partake in the sacred tradition of
Speaker 3: hanging his Santa ornament on the Matthews tree, but just
Speaker 3: as he goes to find it, Jack accidentally hangs it himself.
Speaker 3: Jack apologizes and Phoene's disappointment is palpable, but he decided.
Speaker 9: Jack and Feenie interaction twice now this episode, as it
Speaker 9: started with Jack and Feoenie and I sow at the beginning,
Speaker 9: I just I occasionally will throw out little lines at
Speaker 9: the screen of how I wanted it to be and
Speaker 9: it should have just been.
Speaker 1: When Jack stands up, he goes, hey, mister Feenie, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you do? I just wanted FENI
Speaker 1: to go what.
Speaker 2: Was your name?
Speaker 1: Again? Which is the first time second time we've spoken
Speaker 1: in the nine years.
Speaker 3: Jack apologizes and Poene's disappointment is palpable, but he decides
Speaker 3: he can just find a substitute. He picks up a shiny,
Speaker 3: meager red ball and sarcastically prizes it how special. Eric's
Speaker 3: ready to go all aboard for sand to land, and
Speaker 3: Amy objects it's Christmas Eve. Alan adds, we were going
Speaker 3: to spend this together as a family, but Eric is focused.
Speaker 2: Christmas eve Day. Why doesn't she say.
Speaker 3: It Christmas Night?
Speaker 2: Now we have to go to our treaty. I love
Speaker 2: how say Christmas eve Day like it's such a weird thing.
Speaker 2: Is a weird thing.
Speaker 3: It's nobody doing for Christmas eve Day.
Speaker 2: No one says that it's just collecting polaroids. That's how
Speaker 2: we do it.
Speaker 3: As he heads out with Missus Claws and his elf,
Speaker 3: Corey and his friends are just getting back.
Speaker 2: All all week each other. We decided to make a
Speaker 2: huge deal I'd like.
Speaker 3: And we are living.
Speaker 10: We are, we are And the only thing that makes
Speaker 10: it passable to be able to be aired on TV
Speaker 10: is because imagine if we didn't act excited to see
Speaker 10: each other, and it's Christmas eve night.
Speaker 8: The day, it's Christmas evening and we are passing each
Speaker 8: other in the door, and what if we didn't.
Speaker 2: Just each other?
Speaker 3: Are they in a fight?
Speaker 2: We just gave each other dirty looks as we watch.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that at one point, but just it's just
Speaker 1: the last thing you hear is just Ben, just go.
Speaker 2: It's just something fun.
Speaker 3: It makes me laugh. So I literally watched it like
Speaker 3: five times trying to figure out what I say, and
Speaker 3: I can't figure it out. I'm trying to read my lips.
Speaker 3: But maybe if I turn off the volume. I didn't
Speaker 3: do that. Maybe if I just turn off the volume
Speaker 3: and read my lips. But like trying to read my
Speaker 3: lips and hearing those guys at the same time, I
Speaker 3: was like, I can't figure it out.
Speaker 9: So great.
Speaker 3: Amy asks the kids how ice skating went, and Corey
Speaker 3: cheekily responds, yule tides of fun, Mom, But who knew
Speaker 3: it would be couples only? And then I did think
Speaker 3: for one second, wait, what there's there's a skating place
Speaker 3: that has a rule that the only people allowed on
Speaker 3: the ice.
Speaker 5: A couple.
Speaker 1: Well you know that they hold her. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: they did that in roller skating.
Speaker 2: Well they have a couple one song, didn't.
Speaker 1: You remember, Like you'd hear the guy going, all right,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is couple skate?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Couples skate one song?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's just a long song.
Speaker 4: Actually just thought about that because I remember it was
Speaker 4: one Moment in Time by Whitney Houston and I had
Speaker 4: to get off and I'm so in love with Lindsay Cheerheart,
Speaker 4: and I did not get to skate with her.
Speaker 2: Why couldn't you skate with by the way, is a
Speaker 2: completely made up But she was my girlfriend, I mean,
Speaker 2: but we never talked to each other.
Speaker 1: You also had a grade okay, all right, okay grade.
Speaker 4: Maureen was actually the one who came to me and
Speaker 4: told me that Lindsay Chehart liked me. So that's how
Speaker 4: Moreen and I like met and started talking in third grade.
Speaker 2: We we we went. We didn't say we went. You
Speaker 2: go with somebody, that's what you going going out?
Speaker 3: Or we're going.
Speaker 2: No, we're just going together for you know, a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks or whatever. But you never spoke to her. Nope,
Speaker 2: she was too shy to talk to me, so I
Speaker 2: would talk to Maureene. So that's why I.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious you never spoke to her. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you didn't kiss, you didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: So we passed. How were you going?
Speaker 4: We passed everybody, And I'm saying everyone in school knew
Speaker 4: that we were going together, but you never spoke. No,
Speaker 4: And then I remember, and I just I was just
Speaker 4: listening to Whitney Houston with India, and I was still
Speaker 4: hearing one moment in time and I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I remember the skating rink, the roller skating rink, and
Speaker 4: the couples dance and just feeling feeling all the feels.
Speaker 2: See, that's why this is real. That's why this is real.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 3: Did you then break up? Did you have to stop
Speaker 3: going together? You have to officially end it? Oh my gosh, writer,
Speaker 3: you are you have to you this is a bottle,
Speaker 3: this is illegal.
Speaker 2: Well think about it.
Speaker 1: You're literally putting the same effort into the relationship now
Speaker 1: that you were in the third grade, so you're essentially
Speaker 1: still together.
Speaker 3: One moment to Panga reiterates to Sean, I didn't I swear.
Speaker 3: Then she wants to have a word with Corey. She
Speaker 3: insists that he stays out of this, but Corey explains,
Speaker 3: when you and I broke up, Sean did everything in
Speaker 3: his power to get us back together again. With gritted teeth,
Speaker 3: he whispers.
Speaker 2: It's Christmas.
Speaker 3: Can you think of a better gift than doing the
Speaker 3: same for them? Topanga now grits her teeth to respond,
Speaker 3: I know your intentions are good, just don't push so hard.
Speaker 3: Corey sighs. All right, I'll be more subtle. Alan comes
Speaker 3: barreling into the room holding a bowl, who wants to
Speaker 3: string some popcorn. Corey can't hold it in. He shouts
Speaker 3: at the top of his lungs Sean and Angela with
Speaker 3: hands up.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: He grabs the bowl and Morgan tries to tell him
Speaker 3: I always string the but before she can get it out,
Speaker 3: Corey throws a few kernels at her. He hands the
Speaker 3: popcorn over to Sean and Angela.
Speaker 1: Was that her whole part this week? Does she say
Speaker 1: I always string the and that's it?
Speaker 2: Does she speak? I don't think she says anything else
Speaker 2: the whole week? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And she gets cut off?
Speaker 2: Yeah literallycorn on.
Speaker 3: Sean breaks the silence with Angela. So you and me
Speaker 3: string and popcorn. They both reach their hands into the
Speaker 3: bowl and thenquickly pull them out. It's awkward, but they're
Speaker 3: being respectful. Sean smiles. I'm not sorry that we're spending
Speaker 3: Christmas together. She agrees, I'm not either.
Speaker 2: Her whole episode, I just want to see Corey be funny.
Speaker 2: I God, you're.
Speaker 4: Such a down or just like any I mean, it's
Speaker 4: not it's just I don't care. You just feel all
Speaker 4: the energy to evaporate, and that's like, just listen, just
Speaker 4: go quit.
Speaker 2: Just get to the next scene. Jesus.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Alan announces that the tree is ready. It's time
Speaker 3: for him to light it up. Corey, not so subtly,
Speaker 3: says Sean and Angela the tree looks so much better
Speaker 3: from right up here, and points to the staircase that
Speaker 3: just happens to have mistletoe hanging right above it. What's
Speaker 3: that mistletoe? Sean looks at his goofy friend who's giving
Speaker 3: him a big thumbs up. Could he be any more obvious?
Speaker 3: Angela agrees, like the ice skating and caroling weren't bad enough.
Speaker 3: Sean wonders, what's he think a little holiday spirit? We're
Speaker 3: just going to fall into each other's arms on que
Speaker 3: Alan turns off the lights and the beautiful Christmas tree
Speaker 3: glows sure enough. Sean admits it's beautiful, and Angela looks
Speaker 3: into his eyes and sighs, I love Christmas. In the
Speaker 3: glow of Christmas, they finally kiss and Corey watch them
Speaker 3: and smile.
Speaker 2: Kismas very quickly.
Speaker 1: Sorry going to go off on a tangent, but it
Speaker 1: led to a discussion in our home last night because
Speaker 1: I grew up a certain way and Susan grew up
Speaker 1: another way.
Speaker 2: Colored Christmas lights yeay r nay, I'm a yay and
Speaker 2: my way. Let me do it.
Speaker 4: Thank you same you, and I will Christmas light yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: thank you, colored Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I want to.
Speaker 4: And my wife thinks it's cheesy and and I'm like,
Speaker 4: and no, give me the big bright lights.
Speaker 2: I want to see you. Thank you. Ko.
Speaker 3: I agree with both of your wives, except since I've
Speaker 3: had kids, having kids, I see Christmas lights through their
Speaker 3: eyes now, and you're right, like, yes, classy Christmas is boring.
Speaker 3: Come on, I get it. White is beautiful, the white,
Speaker 3: the white lights, and you can and it glows off
Speaker 3: the silver and the gold and the whatever. Bright multi
Speaker 3: colored Christmas lights scream Christmas.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So we have a tree that alternates, We have lights
Speaker 3: that alternate. You can do whatever you want, and my
Speaker 3: kids usually pick it, and they pick like sometimes the
Speaker 3: slow blink colored ones. Sometimes they pick the ones where
Speaker 3: just a couple of them go on and off. Outside
Speaker 3: our house we do red, and we do red and
Speaker 3: white alternating on our fence, and then on the house
Speaker 3: we do all white. But I'm thinking this year we switch.
Speaker 1: It up and do big multi My wife is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent wrong, and please don't tell her.
Speaker 2: I said that we'll keep it. See, are you going
Speaker 2: to win this argument? No, it's not about last year.
Speaker 1: She goes, if you want to do colored lights, you
Speaker 1: can put colored lights in the tree.
Speaker 2: But I saw a single tear roll down her tree.
Speaker 3: You want to break you want to break my.
Speaker 1: Heart exactly, And she didn't say it like that, but
Speaker 1: that's what she meant.
Speaker 3: And so here's what I recommend. Get another tree. So
Speaker 3: we we have we have a big tree, and then
Speaker 3: we also have like a small tree. But I, for
Speaker 3: a while in my house had a regular before I
Speaker 3: was married, I had a regular tree. And then I
Speaker 3: had an all white Christmas tree and it was every
Speaker 3: all the ornaments were white.
Speaker 2: When by yourself you had two Christmas trees?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 8: Wow, life was good when I lived alone.
Speaker 3: Christmas tree so much free space. Oh my god, a
Speaker 3: whole house to my house. Yeah, Christmas trees in every room.
Speaker 5: Yeah? So do it?
Speaker 3: Do another tree? Do a tree, do a wheel tree.
Speaker 3: Have your wife likes a Charlie Brown tree, you do that?
Speaker 3: Get a second tree, Okay, And decorated.
Speaker 1: However you want to see, I'm just gonna put it
Speaker 1: in front of her tree.
Speaker 3: Well you put it in your room?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, she'd love that.
Speaker 3: Later in the Matthews living room, Corey and Sean are
Speaker 3: making some adjustments to the tree ornaments, and Corey's can't
Speaker 3: stop grinning at Sean. You kissed Angela. Sean begs him
Speaker 3: not to make a big deal out of this, but
Speaker 3: Corey reminds him it is a big deal. Shawn isn't sold,
Speaker 3: not this time. She's over me. We're over each other.
Speaker 3: Why won't you let this go? Corey finally blurts out,
Speaker 3: because Angela is still in love with you. She didn't
Speaker 3: want to break up with you in the first place,
Speaker 3: and I know you wrote that poem because you still
Speaker 3: love her. Sean isn't thrilled. He's concerned. How do you
Speaker 3: know that? Corey gets flustered. Someone told me? I mean
Speaker 3: no one told me. I mean I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3: He quickly begs, please don't take me to Tapanga. John
Speaker 3: immediately pushes Corey toward the girls. I want to know
Speaker 3: what's going on, Sean interrogates to Panga, What did you
Speaker 3: tell Corey? Topega's eyes widened, so Corey comes clean to Angela,
Speaker 3: I told Sean that you still love him, and I
Speaker 3: know Tapega was telling you that Sean still loves you.
Speaker 3: Angela cuts him off.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 3: Corey, now shocked, looks at ta Pega. You didn't tell
Speaker 3: her anything, did you? Tapega shakes her head. Corey lets
Speaker 3: that sink in, then suggests that now is a good time.
Speaker 3: Angela's not laughing. Somebody better start talking. She looks at Sean.
Speaker 3: I think it should be you and me. Sean agrees,
Speaker 3: let's get out of here. Corey tries to stop them,
Speaker 3: but they slam the door in his face. He asks Topanga,
Speaker 3: I couldn't see their faces. Did they look angry? Was
Speaker 3: he mad? To Pega gives him an angry look of
Speaker 3: her student union. I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Because there's forty two people in a very small home.
Speaker 1: There's no place anymore.
Speaker 2: We could go to our dorm rooms, like we have
Speaker 2: dorm rooms.
Speaker 5: What I know, what well we've yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what might you know? What might have been cute?
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of ridiculous, but if you did
Speaker 1: it in like the treehouse, right, I mean there's still
Speaker 1: a treehouses there in the backyard, in the side yard,
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, because then you come back to the house,
Speaker 3: you don't even like to choose to stay.
Speaker 5: Why do you go all the way to this?
Speaker 3: How far is the student union?
Speaker 2: Did all that? Do you think everybody has a car? Teleportation?
Speaker 2: Sitcom teleportation?
Speaker 3: You borrowed Corey's car?
Speaker 4: Okay, we only we only have a car when it
Speaker 4: becomes a problem, right, yeah, he gets a driver's license, ye,
Speaker 4: or a car breaks down and we have.
Speaker 2: To take the subway.
Speaker 3: Also, I did think it was very interesting you didn't
Speaker 3: talk at all about the relationship until you arrived at
Speaker 3: the student union. You're discuss any.
Speaker 2: But also like what is the problem?
Speaker 3: What is Sean?
Speaker 2: Why is Sean not ready to commit? Does he want
Speaker 2: to be dating other people? Like there's no reason.
Speaker 4: So like when he has the moment of kissing Angela,
Speaker 4: it's like, what are you overcoming?
Speaker 1: It's just it's supposed to be about his parents, but
Speaker 1: they never they never ever address it.
Speaker 2: I hate that's what could make it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because they've thrown a nugget about her dad,
Speaker 1: and they thrown a nugget about your dad and both
Speaker 1: your families are eventually going to be why and if reserves,
Speaker 1: that's what happens later.
Speaker 2: That's like the great deep motivation. But what is Sean saying?
Speaker 3: Actually, Like, the last time he spoke about it, he
Speaker 3: was like, listen, I made a mistake. I thought I
Speaker 3: thought I wanted to be free, but I just miss her.
Speaker 3: I think about her all the time. So the last
Speaker 3: time we saw him, he was like, that was a mistake.
Speaker 3: And now he's like, but I don't know if I
Speaker 3: want to fix it. Yeah, I don't know. They don't
Speaker 3: want to change the mistake.
Speaker 4: Drama for the sake of drama. I mean, that's the
Speaker 4: it's melodrama. It's a definition of melodrama.
Speaker 3: Tipanga gives him an angry look of her own. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: like that, And then Amy, who we know notice is
Speaker 3: very pregnant, walks into the living room and asks, has
Speaker 3: anyone seen my toaster oven? And then we cut to
Speaker 3: santaland Eric is telling a little girl that the easy
Speaker 3: bake oven is for rookies. What he as for her
Speaker 3: is a real toaster oven. The girl leaves with Amy's appliance,
Speaker 3: and Eric declares Christmas is the greatest idea anybody ever had.
Speaker 3: He's all out of stuff now, and all those little
Speaker 3: kids are so happy. Jack praises his friends, you're a
Speaker 3: great Santa. Eric returns the compliment, he's a great elf,
Speaker 3: while also praising his own Santa skills. I want the
Speaker 3: world's happiness to be my responsibility. What a great job.
Speaker 3: And just when he thought the day was over, a
Speaker 3: little boy walks up and sits on his lap. Eric asks,
Speaker 3: in his regular voice, you look familiar. Are you in
Speaker 3: my psych class? The child explains me.
Speaker 2: Again as a little kid, JB.
Speaker 3: The child explains, I was here yesterday. My name's Tommy.
Speaker 3: Missus claws butts in, Yeah, he came with the other
Speaker 3: children on the bus. Santa pretend he's an orphan nobody.
Speaker 4: We couldn't have the orphan in the previous seat. We
Speaker 4: had to time it out for the story that he
Speaker 4: comes back for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep o. Santa pretends he's known Tommy his whole life.
Speaker 3: He actually gave Tommy the truck that he's conveniently holding.
Speaker 3: Tommy sadly explains, yeah, and I came to give it back.
Speaker 3: I didn't really believe you were Santa, but all my
Speaker 3: friends came back with stuff. So now that I know
Speaker 3: you're really him, I was wondering if I can give
Speaker 3: this back and ask for something else instead. Eric doesn't
Speaker 3: think twice he can ask for anything he wants. Tommy asks,
Speaker 3: do you think I can have parents for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: And then sad music plays, Sam said music, and then
Speaker 3: Eric looks to his friends for support. Will what do
Speaker 3: you remember about working with JB.
Speaker 2: From this episode? Nothing? I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember being Santa very remember the for
Speaker 1: some reason, I remember the moment of out of everything,
Speaker 1: but you can have this bag, like, I remember that,
Speaker 1: but I remembered very little else. The next couple episodes
Speaker 1: that Tommy's in, those are the ones that I really
Speaker 1: remember because I think me of ar Dallas is in
Speaker 1: one of the episodes. She's a social worker, and I
Speaker 1: remember she and I got along really really well. And
Speaker 1: I remember just JB and I had had.
Speaker 2: A good working relationship. It was a great little kid.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I remember them trying to take Eric
Speaker 1: in the more dramatic like they were like, you know,
Speaker 1: Sean hasn't been dramatic in a long time, so we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Make Eric more dramatic.
Speaker 1: We need more angst, We need more angst, so they
Speaker 1: I think the next couple episodes that he's in get
Speaker 1: pretty drama.
Speaker 2: But no, I just remember having fun with him.
Speaker 1: He was he was a cute little kid, and I
Speaker 1: remember his family that was there were very nice and
Speaker 1: he's obviously was easy.
Speaker 2: And then he came back for a Girl World and
Speaker 2: it was great to work with them. Yeah, that episode
Speaker 2: didn't I directed it. Yeah, he was. It was just
Speaker 2: hadn't acted since.
Speaker 1: He's basically like one step below a professional golfer. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he plays a ton of golf at college, and
Speaker 1: is I think gonna pursue that maybe, I mean, he's.
Speaker 2: Apparently like a very very good golfer.
Speaker 1: So but it was great. He was a great guy
Speaker 1: and it was great to see him again. So cool,
Speaker 1: we're tracking him down try.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I reached out to Barbie Block and Barbie said
Speaker 3: she would do like a blast through her agent to
Speaker 3: see if any agents or whoever still has contacts with him.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. So then we're at the student union
Speaker 3: at night. Sean and Angela walk up to the closed
Speaker 3: doors and are met by the janitor from before. I
Speaker 3: thought just about everybody would be out celebrating by now.
Speaker 3: He shrugs and lets the kids in. If it's if,
Speaker 3: why isn't it just unlocked?
Speaker 2: Like say what?
Speaker 1: They Maybe because there's there's stuff in the student's store
Speaker 1: they don't want stolen.
Speaker 2: Maybe like I don't, Yeah, but why do we need?
Speaker 2: I guess it's just at the atmosphere of like a
Speaker 2: lights off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess ouch, I don't know, decorated kind of
Speaker 3: for Christmas.
Speaker 5: I guess he threw them all away.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Angela and Sean now stand face to face,
Speaker 3: and she's the first to ask, why can't we just
Speaker 3: tell each other how we feel? Sean doesn't know, but
Speaker 3: he does know how confusing it is. Angela agrees, we
Speaker 3: broke up. We agreed to move on, Sean adds, and
Speaker 3: next thing you know, we're kissing under the mistletoe. Angela
Speaker 3: continues on and letting Corey tell us how we should feel.
Speaker 3: Shon admits when we don't even know ourselves that Angela
Speaker 3: stops agreeing with him. There, I'm sure I love you.
Speaker 3: I've always loved you. I just wanted you to be
Speaker 3: sure about what you felt. Sean admits. When we broke up,
Speaker 3: I thought I wanted to be free, but I couldn't
Speaker 3: stop thinking about you. That scares me. I don't know
Speaker 3: what to do with those feelings. Angela suggests he give
Speaker 3: in to them, because then he'd be in love with
Speaker 3: someone that loves him too. Isn't that what he wants?
Speaker 3: Sean says, you are a wonderful person, Angela, and she
Speaker 3: repeats herself, isn't that what you want? Sean? Shan admits,
Speaker 3: I don't know what I want. I'm so confused. Okay,
Speaker 3: I really don't think i'm ready. Angela gets emotional. I
Speaker 3: opened my heart to you. I can't just sit around
Speaker 3: like a fool waiting for you to be ready. Sean
Speaker 3: tries to speak, but he doesn't know what to say.
Speaker 3: Angela grabs his hands. I'm done. It's over, Sean. Sean's
Speaker 3: face is filled with pain as he watches her walk away.
Speaker 2: Ready for what. I know you already dated.
Speaker 1: I know you're just monogamous, loss of term, loving relationship.
Speaker 2: So ready for what to do that again?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Because marriage, man, is exactly it's just so extreme. It's
Speaker 3: just and it's like you think that if you are
Speaker 3: in a relationship, you have to be like Corey into
Speaker 3: panga and you're not ready for Corey into pango level attachment.
Speaker 2: That's what dating means on Boying World. It means, oh,
Speaker 2: we're dating. We love each other, it's forever, it's and.
Speaker 3: We are together in everything. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's like it's the same way that like
Speaker 4: kissing stands in for a sex. Yeah, it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's that, It's it's all the turmoil of like a
Speaker 4: real Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just heightened, you know, it's just ya.
Speaker 2: We just have to make it more dramatic than I
Speaker 2: think it really would be in real life.
Speaker 4: Like, of course, casually dated and break up and maybe
Speaker 4: date somebody else, but that doesn't make for drama, So
Speaker 4: we got to amp it up, you know.
Speaker 3: Right now, on a snowy bench outside Eric's still in
Speaker 3: a Santa costume and covered in snow, speaks into the void.
Speaker 3: I want to make the happiness of the entire world
Speaker 3: my responsibility. What an idiot? He looks up to this
Speaker 3: guy and asks, what am I supposed to do? I
Speaker 3: made those little kids smile, took care of everybody that
Speaker 3: came to see me, no disrespect. But why would you
Speaker 3: send me that little boy? Why doesn't that nice little
Speaker 3: boy have parents? Why did you send me that little kid? Finally,
Speaker 3: he wonders, why do I only come to you when
Speaker 3: I need something? You shouldn't have to take care of everything? Right,
Speaker 3: He stands up and pledges to the universe, I will
Speaker 3: take care of this. I can be responsible for the
Speaker 3: happiness of one little boy. And then we're in the
Speaker 3: Matthews living room to pay as ry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I be just blowing by that, because you're right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't none of it. I mean, I love a
Speaker 1: good godolog I really do, but I don't.
Speaker 2: It didn't.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make any sense really, the entire scene now,
Speaker 1: It just I know it wasn't necessary Eric.
Speaker 4: You know, he's trying to do the right and he
Speaker 4: does the right thing, like there's a there's not really
Speaker 4: a conflict here now because Eric is he has such
Speaker 4: a good heart, he's always done the right thing. There
Speaker 4: hasn't been a conflict of him giving too much to kids.
Speaker 1: This scene should have been saved for a future episode
Speaker 1: where if he's going to.
Speaker 2: Adopt Tommy or not.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's when that's when this is necessary, not I'm
Speaker 1: going to be nice to the kid and becoming big
Speaker 1: brother on the weekends.
Speaker 3: This scene could have picked up right where the last
Speaker 3: scene ended, with JB still on your lap, you making
Speaker 3: the decision in that moment come home with me and
Speaker 3: your friend's going what are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 3: And you can say I can be responsible. You could
Speaker 3: end at the same place. You can make the decision
Speaker 3: right then and there You're right, I don't really know
Speaker 3: what you need to talk to God about or why
Speaker 3: you need to have this feeling of like, oh, I
Speaker 3: only come to God when i'm when I need something.
Speaker 3: I'm not. It's I just didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed unnecessary, that's a yeah, it was kind
Speaker 1: of strangely placed.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just think that the story if it
Speaker 2: had started.
Speaker 4: With you not wanting to be Santa, or like hating
Speaker 4: the idea of having to be up with kids on
Speaker 4: your lap or something, right, but they couldn't write that
Speaker 4: because that's not fitting it to.
Speaker 2: Meet girls or something like that. There you go exactly
Speaker 2: like that's what I mean.
Speaker 4: There could have been, but I feel like they and
Speaker 4: there probably was a draft so where it started that way, right,
Speaker 4: but then they were like, no, that's not likable or
Speaker 4: that's not eric and so they wrote themselves out of
Speaker 4: the arc.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's actually just more of sound.
Speaker 1: Because how do you not then if you do, he
Speaker 1: does it because he thinks he's going to get girls
Speaker 1: and he's standing there next to a girl and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: women love a guy in uniform.
Speaker 2: Like how do you? How do you know?
Speaker 1: Something like that, and then it becomes about actually bringing happiness.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, they never think.
Speaker 1: They tried to do that with the twelve I'm making
Speaker 1: twelve thousand hour and I get to sit on my
Speaker 1: butt and then he's playing video games and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: They were trying to show that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, but it was right.
Speaker 2: To start there. It just wasn't harsh, right, agreed, It
Speaker 2: needed to be more heightened than what I mean.
Speaker 4: They kind of wrote against the very story they were
Speaker 4: They were setting themselves up for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. Well I didn't even
Speaker 3: think of that. They did try to make it be like,
Speaker 3: this is the easiest job in the world. Who cares.
Speaker 3: I sit on my butt, I play my video game,
Speaker 3: I make twelve bucks an hour, and then it becomes
Speaker 3: I need to.
Speaker 2: Adopt a child, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So then we're in the Matthews living room to Panga
Speaker 3: is staring out the window, and Corey wonders what could
Speaker 3: be taking them so long? I love you, you love me.
Speaker 3: We're back together. Let's thank Corey and t Bega. That's
Speaker 3: ten minutes tops. Morgan asks, do we have to wait
Speaker 3: for Eric to open our presence?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's just good. She did have another line, good, good, good.
Speaker 3: Alan, Feenie, and Amy are also gathered in the room,
Speaker 3: and Amy responds, you've been patient long enough. How about
Speaker 3: each one of us open one. They each open a
Speaker 3: rapt present, but Morgan realizes hers is empty. Alan's also.
Speaker 4: All it would have taken is Fhoenie in that scene
Speaker 4: in the opening, to be like, this is actually a
Speaker 4: pretty great job, Eric, this is important, like kids, kids,
Speaker 4: You're you're gonna be something that these kids will remember forever,
Speaker 4: and you to be like whatever, And then this monologue
Speaker 4: could have been a scene with Feenie where he's like,
Speaker 4: now you know it is important, right.
Speaker 3: It's a responsibility, and you and Phoenie cares about Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's full.
Speaker 4: It would have taken this one exchange with him being like,
Speaker 4: I think it's actually kind of an important job, and
Speaker 4: you'll be like, I get to be sand I wear
Speaker 4: and then and you mock him, and then this scene
Speaker 4: would have been like you could be like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: really care about the kids and I'm in too deep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have worked simple, So just took writer
Speaker 2: like four minutes.
Speaker 3: Alan's also has nothing inside beside a little note. He
Speaker 3: reads it aloud. Your seventy five bit power drill was
Speaker 3: donated to a child in need love Santa Claus Feene
Speaker 3: reads his note. He also gave away my breast pump.
Speaker 3: He's confused and then realizes that was actually for Amy.
Speaker 3: I'd like it to be said, if you or anyone
Speaker 3: you know is thinking of buying a pregnant woman a
Speaker 3: breast pump for a holiday, don't that's not a gift.
Speaker 3: Do not.
Speaker 2: Don't. I gotta, I gotta make a call.
Speaker 3: We only have a few minutes, and then you then
Speaker 3: go and cancel that. What on earth bred Merry Christmas?
Speaker 3: Here's your breast pump for the child of mine you're having.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Amy doesn't understand, but Alan knows his son well enough.
Speaker 3: He asks Jack and Rachel where Eric is, and Jack stutters, uh,
Speaker 3: the kids were just so cute. You know it wasn't
Speaker 3: just him. Rachel chimes in, have you ever really gotten
Speaker 3: caught up in the spirit of Christmas so much so
Speaker 3: that you wanted to steal?
Speaker 2: That's a funny line.
Speaker 3: Uh huh on cue. Eric walks in, still dressed as Santa.
Speaker 3: He wishes everyone to Merry Christmas, and we see Tommy
Speaker 3: peeking out from behind him, too nervous to come in,
Speaker 3: Eric gives him some encouragement, and Tommy finally walks in.
Speaker 3: He waves to everyone. As Eric introduces Tommy to his family,
Speaker 3: Alan walks up and says, hi to the little boy.
Speaker 3: Do you have my seventy five bit power? Drow Amy
Speaker 3: asks what's going on?
Speaker 2: I feel weird, Like Eric's weird it.
Speaker 3: Giving it away?
Speaker 2: I mean, just take one of the kids. We got plenty,
Speaker 2: just take one off.
Speaker 3: I know, it's so weird. I don't know who approved
Speaker 3: this this, yeah, yeah, but I know, and.
Speaker 4: Is somebody from the orphanage with you, you know, and like
Speaker 4: maybe a couple of the kids, and you were just like, oh,
Speaker 4: I thought we'd have a couple of the field trip
Speaker 4: for yeah something.
Speaker 2: It's just so creepy.
Speaker 3: Eric grabs Tommy and sits him on his lap. Tommy
Speaker 3: doesn't have a family, so I thought it'd be nice
Speaker 3: if he could spend Christmas with us. If that's okay
Speaker 3: with everybody else, everyone's more than happy to have him.
Speaker 3: Morgan offers him a gingerbread cookie, which he happily takes.
Speaker 3: Eric explains they met back when Eric was Santa. You see,
Speaker 3: Tommy thought he was the real deal, but Tommy clarifies
Speaker 3: now he knows he's just Eric. Eric nods and laughs.
Speaker 3: He said we could still hang out, though. Tommy adds
Speaker 3: he said we could hang out on weekends. Eric can't
Speaker 3: help but smile. He says, it'll be like Tommy has
Speaker 3: a big brother. Corey says he's a good one. Tell me.
Speaker 3: Eric whispers to his family. I figured it was something
Speaker 3: I could do. Tommy looks at Eric and wishes him
Speaker 3: a Merry Christmas. And then we're in the tag Matthew's
Speaker 3: living room, Feene he's reading a Christmas carol to everyone. Yes,
Speaker 3: this is a callback, right, this is the second year
Speaker 3: we've done this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: As soon as he reads about Marley being dead as
Speaker 3: a door nail, Sean and Angela walk into the house,
Speaker 3: and Corey and Tapanga look at each other, and that's
Speaker 3: it a cliffhanger. Tommy lives with the Matthews now, Seananangela
Speaker 3: not together Dune Dune Dunn.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So we'll have to wait and see what happens in
Speaker 3: this two. I mean, it's not a part one, I
Speaker 3: don't think, but it really it is a cliffhanger on
Speaker 3: both stories. So join us for our next episode recap,
Speaker 3: which will be season six, episode twelve, Cutting the Cord,
Speaker 3: which originally aired January eighth, nineteen ninety eight. So this
Speaker 3: episode we talked about aired December eleventh. We took like
Speaker 3: almost a month off, so this ended on this cliffhanger
Speaker 3: of like will they or won't they? Or we know
Speaker 3: they aren't getting back together, like how's that gonna play out?
Speaker 3: And Tommy, they just got a new kid, Jesse. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've got to wait a month for it if you
Speaker 3: were living in nineteen ninety eight watching the show. Anyway,
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